The vertica installation script fails with swappiness error
Environment
Vertica Analytics Database: version All
Situation
The Vertica installation script fails with below error -
Prerequisites not fully met during local (OS) configuration for
verify-10.138.34.245.xml:
HINT (S0305): https://docs.vertica.com/25.3.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0305
HINT(eS0305): TZ is unset for dbadmin. Consider updating .profile or
.bashrc
WARN (S0112): https://docs.vertica.com/25.3.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0112
WARN(eS0112): vm.swappiness is higher than recommended: your 30 > 1
Prerequisites not fully met during local (OS) configuration for
verify-10.138.34.246.xml:
HINT (S0305): https://docs.vertica.com/25.3.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0305
HINT(eS0305): TZ is unset for dbadmin. Consider updating .profile or
.bashrc
WARN (S0112): https://docs.vertica.com/25.3.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0112
WARN(eS0112): vm.swappiness is higher than recommended: your 30 > 1
Prerequisites not fully met during local (OS) configuration for
verify-10.138.34.247.xml:
HINT (S0305): https://docs.vertica.com/25.3.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0305
HINT(eS0305): TZ is unset for dbadmin. Consider updating .profile or
.bashrc
WARN (S0112): https://docs.vertica.com/25.3.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0112
WARN(eS0112): vm.swappiness is higher than recommended: your 30 > 1
Detected significant differences in the cluster:
HINT: Differences in RAM (kbytes):
verify-10.138.34.245.xml: 131974180
verify-10.138.34.246.xml: 131974220
verify-10.138.34.247.xml: 131974172
For more information, see
https://docs.vertica.com/25.3.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=CLREQ01
System prerequisites failed. Threshold = WARN
Hint: Fix above failures or use --failure-threshold
Installation FAILED with errors.
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