Re: Writing CD on alpha

[Oliver Soell <oliver@jeep.ops.neosoft.com>]

> 
> MAX shared memory block is only set to <4MB by default. So it's more or less
> a kernel-image problem and not a cdrecord problem which I first thought...
> 
> I now set it to 8MB and it works without any problems... But I don't know
> why the kernel maintainers only set it to <4MB... (do you know??)
> 
> and I think if debian provides cdrecord it should have a working
> kernel-image :)
> 
> cu
>  gerhard
> 
> 


As of 2.2.0p7 (I think) the SHMMAX value can be set dynamically by echoing a
new value to /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax. Nice and easy.

cheers,
-o

Oliver Soell
Network Engineer, MCSE
NeoSoft, Inc.
oliver@neosoft.com