Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Shared Memory in 2.4.0-test6 and test7 | From | Christoph Rohland <> | Date | 28 Aug 2000 02:53:54 -0700 |
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Michael Bielicki <Michael.Bielicki@Parmastocks.com> writes:
> ipcs -lm: > > ------ Shared Memory Limits -------- > max number of segments = 4096 > max seg size (kbytes) = 32768 > max total shared memory (kbytes) = 8388608 > min seg size (bytes) = 0
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> Could it be that the max shared memory is too small ?
Yes, the max segment size is 32M. That's too small for most databases.
> but /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax = 335544320
That's probably not true. I cross-checked here. Echoing something different too /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax changes output of 'ipcs -lm' and this says that the trailing zero is missing...
Greetings Christoph
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