Re: default kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs is too low

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:26:34AM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Andrew Doran wrote:
> >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.
> >
> >I suggested this before in private:
> >
> >- param.c: ifndef SHMMAX then define SHMMAX 0
> >- shminit: if (shmmax == 0) shmmax = 5% of physical RAM
> >- shminit: if (shmmax < SHMMAXPGS) shmmax = SHMMAXPGS
> 
> shmmaxpgs appears to be the issue here, not shmmax..

Same tuneable, different units.

Andrew