Re: default kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs is too low

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

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..

Cheers,
Jared