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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:31:55PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
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> David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org> writes:
> > 	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?
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> Yes. SHMMAXPGS should be nuked from orbit -- it should dynamically
> size itself. (We should also somehow garbage collect segments that are
> no longer associated with running processes.)

Uhm - but those could be accessed later by a new process, can't they?

	-is
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