Thanks!!! Falk Hueffner wrote: > > 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