On Fri, 17 May 2002, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:34:43AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	We default to SHMMAXPGS=1024, 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.
> >
> > 	Ogle (to give an example) likes a SHMMAXPGS of 16384.
> >
> > 	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.

	Thats a pretty compelling reason :)

	Thanks.

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