From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 6 02:52:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA13976 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 02:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA13966 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 02:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA07421; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 11:51:43 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA06461; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 11:51:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA09833; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 11:27:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607060927.LAA09833@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Shared Memory Questions To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 11:27:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bartol@salk.edu (Tom Bartol) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Tom Bartol at "Jul 6, 96 00:22:25 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Bartol wrote: > So, the bottom line is this -- can any of you give some advice on how to > tune shared memory in FreeBSD? Are these numbers meant to be hard coded > and un-tweekable? Can it be done at all? I really know next to nothing > about shared memory and any help you can give would be greatly > appreciated (virtual beers etc...) :) I'm afraid you've just qualified to become the most knowledgable person about FreeBSD's SysV shared mem implementation. :-) SysV shared mem seems not to be used that heavily these days. Now that you've already went this way, can't you go on and see *why* it is crashing? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)