Subject: Re: Increasing SHMMAXPGS
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/22/2002 11:25:52 
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.

On i386, according to GENERIC we default to SHMMAXPGS=1024, but according
to vmparam.h, we default to SHMMAXPGS=2048.. (PR#12708)

Cheers,

Patrick