Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:38:10 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [RFC -mm 0/6] sysv ipc: scale msgmnb with the number of cpus |
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Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net wrote: > The size in bytes of a SysV IPC message queue, msgmnb, is too small > for large machines, but we don't want to bloat small machines > > Several methods are used already to modify (mainly increase) msgmnb: > . distribution specific patch > . system wide sysctl.conf > . application specific tuning via /proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb > > Which distributions use a patch?
The whole configuration can be done from user space, thus I assumed that a sysctl.conf value (or in the worst case: a dbus/hal daemon that updates /proc/sys/kernel/msgnmb) could do the job.
-- Manfred
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