Subject: Re: Increasing SHMMAXPGS
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/17/2002 11:36:10
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.
IMHO ogle should be fixed to not need so much SHMMAXPGS.
At the moment I can't even run it, because of a SHM problem, and yes
I have bumped it to 16384.
Bernd