Re: what about cdrecord ?

[Frank Petzold <petzold@hepe.com>]

jk@espy.org writes:
> At 12:23 -0700 1999-10-01, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> >The parameter is SHMMAX, #defined in /usr/src/linux/include/asm*/shmparam.h.
> >This parameter is set to 4 MB by default in older (pre-2.2.10)
> >kernels, but has been changed in more recent versions of the Vger
> >source code (presumably these patches have propagated to the main
> >source tree, but I wouldn't take it on faith).
> 
> % grep '^#define SHMMAX' ~kernel/2.2.13pre/include/asm-ppc/shmparam.h
> #define SHMMAX 0x2000000                /* max shared seg size (bytes) */
> 
> The parameter is also tunable at runtime via /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax, 
> the value is in decimal bytes.
> So 32MB (the current default) can be set via
>    echo 33554432 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

I have recompiled the kernel (APUS 2.2.10) with #define SHMMAX 0x2000000, but 
now the system hangs when I try to write an image in xcdroast. Are there other 
parameters to adjust, too? Or is this an APUS specific problem?

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