From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 18:58:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA19353 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:58:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19347 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net ([198.70.144.127]) by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA02752 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 6 Nov 1996 19:59:38 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.2/8.6.9) id OAA00509; Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:52:04 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199611061952.OAA00509@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Help! Shared Memory? To: edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org (Andrew N. Edmond) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:52:04 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew N. Edmond" at Nov 6, 96 03:45:50 pm Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > One of my recent frustrations is getting a working knowledge of Gimp (cool > program!) and not being able to do anything with it because it's always > running out of shared memory! How can I increase this value? > In -current, it is a tunable with nothing but a practical maximum. Under -stable, you need to be careful to change the value sanely!!! Look at the LINT kernel for the tunables (I am pretty much down right now.) John