Subject: Re: Increasing SHMMAXPGS
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/17/2002 20:16:29
In some email I received from matthew green, sie 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.
>
> Ogle (to give an example) likes a SHMMAXPGS of 16384.
>
> Would anyone object to increasing the default to 16384 for all
> platforms?
>
>
> perhaps, on a per-port basis, it could become a dynamic based on
> the amount of ram available?
why can't this be changable with sysctl ?