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Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 00:00:49 -0700
From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: SHMMAXPGS
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In i386/include/vmparam.h I see:

/*
 * Size of the Shared Memory Pages page table. 
 */
#ifndef SHMMAXPGS
#define SHMMAXPGS       1024            /* XXX until we have more kmap space */
#endif

and wonder what a good range on its value is.  The reason is that
shmgets are failing for really large memory requests.  How large
can I make this?

-josh