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To: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com>
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Subject: Re: anyone tried INN shared active patch? 
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:14:05 -0700
From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
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> 
> I've recently installed INN 1.4unoff4 on a FreeBSD-2.2-BETA Pentium 133
> with 128 MB RAM.  In testing out various options I unearthed a little
> patch which causes it to use System V shared memory to reduce the size of
> each in.nnrpd process.

   It's called the sharedactive patch.  You may need to do some kernel
reconfigurations to make it work - namely increasing the size of the
SysV shared pages:

options		"SHMMAXPGS=2048"

(the value we use here)

> I'm wondering if anyone else has run into problems using this patch
> specifically, or more generally with FreeBSD's implementation of System V
> shared memory.

   We've been running it for about 8 months here.  It's marvelous.

    -Dave