Subject: Re: increasing share memory
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Julio Merino <juli@darkstar.local>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/03/2002 09:52:02
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On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:49:19PM +1100, Giles Lean wrote:
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> <mochaexpress@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> A boolean reporting the presence or absence of SysV shared memory
> support in the kernel perhaps? Kernels built without the SYSVSHM
> option don't have SysV shared memory support.
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> To increase the amount of available SysV shared memory you can build
> a new kernel with an increased value for SHMMAXPGS. I use:
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> options SHMMAXPGS=3D32768 # 1024 pages is the default
Which are the advantadges of doing this?
Thanks.
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> I don't think this is tunable at runtime, but if it is I'm sure
> someone will say so. :-)
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> Regards,
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> Giles
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Of course it runs NetBSD - http://www.netbsd.org
Julio Merino <slink@unixbsd.org>
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