Re: default kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs is too low

To: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>
Subject: Re: default kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs is too low
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:43:53 +0100

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:20:19PM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> Any chance of bumping the default to something a bit more reasonable?  
> gtk apps and mplayer both complain about not being able to allocate shm  
> with the default configuration, bumping it to 8192 makes everything 
> happy.

Practically speaking, I would suggest to making the default limit
something like 1024 pages or 1/4 of the physical memory, what ever is
higher. Also helps for things like PostgreSQL.

Joerg

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