Re: setting shmseg?

[Adam Russell <ac.russell%live.com@localhost>]

On 5/1/12 1:38 PM, gary%duzan.org@localhost wrote:
> =>  I am writing an application which makes heavy use of threads and shared
> =>  memory. It seems I am hitting the shmseg limit for max shared memory
> =>  segments per process.
> =>  `ipcs -T` tells me that this is currently set to
> =>       shmseg:     128 (max shared memory segments per process)
> =>  Is this changeable in some way or is it hardcoded in the kernel
> =>  someplace (thus necessitating a kernel recompile :( ) ?
> =>  If it is changeable than how?
>
>     It is a sysctl. Try:
>
> sysctl -w kern.ipc.shmseg=4096
>
>     Larger values are possible; I haven't checked for a hard limit. You can
> add it to /etc/sysctl.conf to have it set at boot time.
Awesome! That did the trick. Thanks for information!