Subject: Re: Locking shared memory in RAM
To: None <darcy@NetBSD.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/06/2004 21:32:59
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> The PostgreSQL performance tuning page says this:
> 
> "You might also want to configure your kernel to lock shared memory into
> RAM and prevent it from being paged out to swap. Use the sysctl setting
> kern.ipc.shm_use_phys."
> 
> This value doesn't appear in NetBSD and I can't find anything that looks
> like it does the same thing.  Does NetBSD have some sort of control for
> locking shared memory (SYSV) into RAM?

No, AFAIK. 

Jaromir 
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