Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Very big shm area | From | Austin Gonyou <> | Date | 02 Jun 2002 13:28:48 -0500 |
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I run a Dell 6450 with 8GB ram and a 4GB SHMMAX. You can set the parameter any time through sysctl if you have it enabled, or you can hardcode it per the Oracle/DB2 Docs if you wish.
Austin
On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 12:21, Kilobug wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to know if it is possible to have a very big system V shared > memory segment (say about 1Gb) ? > > I've quickly looked into the source code of shm.c and shm.h in ipc/ and > I've read the following: > /* > * SHMMAX, SHMMNI and SHMALL are upper limits are defaults which can > * be increased by sysctl > */ > > But how far is it possible to increase them ? And which sysctl must be > done ? > > Thank you for answering,
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