Subject: Re: Increasing SHMMAXPGS
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/17/2002 10:58:18
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On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:34:43AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	We default to SHMMAXPGS=3D1024, which seems rather small given this
> 	is the maximum limit and changes to it shouldn't affect the amount
> 	of memory in use unless an application takes advantage of a higher
> 	limit.
>=20
> 	Ogle (to give an example) likes a SHMMAXPGS of 16384.
>=20
> 	Would anyone object to increasing the default to 16384 for all
> 	platforms?

yes.

Thats 128 MB of virtual space on Amiga (and similiar PMAPs), and its pmap
module is known to be unhappy when the virtual address space of a process
is too big.

	-is

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