Re: Miniscule SHMMAX causing trouble
On Sat 09 Jan 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
> Now, I am indeed on Alpha. Why is the maximum shared memory size on Alpha
> miniscule like that? Certainly a 64-bit machine should be able to use at
> least as much shared memory as a 32-bit one!
>
> Is this something that I can tweak and set to an arbitrary value?
>
> This problem is in all the way from 2.0.x to 2.2.0pre.
I was contemplating this myself last week; I can't find any reason why
this should be. One gets into trouble with the default cdrecord settings
as well because of this.
Maybe I'll write the kernel mailing list...
Paul Slootman
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