Re: how do i set the shared memory size?

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

bad bob <sfmc68@bellatlantic.net> writes:

> in deb 2.2 on alpha, how do I set the sharedmem area to max or 32MB?
> looks like it is about 28MB out of the box.

well, it *is* 32 MB by default on newer kernels:

% cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
33554432

but you can increase it with

echo 40000000 >  /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

        Falk