Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 22:19:51 -0400 From: David Petrou <dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu> To: Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC's SysV shared memory settings+defaults be re-thought? Message-ID: <20010503221951.G47670@amant.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
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> If I may comment on my desktop experience... I have been running > E+gnome, with the usual netscape/xemacs/mailer combination for a good > while now, on a Pentium 166Mhz with 32M but around 100-150Mb or swap. > > Never had problems with SHM. i've commented about the problems with shm and a heavy enlightenment / gnome load a few weeks ago to stable, but my message was pretty much ignored. also note that this issue has been brought up in current a year or so ago. my problems went away with: options SHMMAXPGS=8192 options SHMMNI=4096 options SHMSEG=1024 i don't know enough about the internals to know the downside for using these high values, but i'm pretty confident on today's architectures it's irrelevant. can someone that knows more than i confirm this and make a permanent change to the kernel config file? it would spare a lot of people some headache. my symptoms before making this change were gnome-terminals disappearing when starting xmms. not a very clear connection to shm. > A. david To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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