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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:32:31 +0400
From:      Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org>
To:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: safe way to increase shm pages
Message-ID:  <20000915083231.D5384@linux.rainbow>
In-Reply-To: <20000914212139.A80135@seanrees.com>; from sean@seanrees.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:21:39PM -0700
References:  <20000914212139.A80135@seanrees.com>

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:21:39PM -0700, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
> I need more SHM pages, lots more. Last time I increased them (options
> SHMMAX in kern conf), I got a lot of odd behavior, especially with GNOME.
> (borders would fail to appear, etc.)
> 
> I'm running 5.0-C pre-SMPng.
sysctl -a | grep shm
you'll get list of SHM related sysctl settable vaules.
SHMMAX in kernel conf is obsolete (AFAIK):
%sysctl -a | grep shm
kern.ipc.shmmax: 40960000
kern.ipc.shmmin: 1
kern.ipc.shmmni: 100
kern.ipc.shmseg: 10
kern.ipc.shmall: 10000
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0
%uname -a
FreeBSD demon.rainbow 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Sun Sep 10 19:56:47 MSD 2000     root@demon.rainbow:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEMON  i386
%


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