Re: default kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs is too low

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

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > 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.

Gotcha, thanks. Doing the math in my head, that looks like it would work 
just fine for a machine with >= 256MB of RAM, which is probably the least 
you'd want to have for GNOME anyway. Looks good to me!

Cheers,
Jared