Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Apr 2014 10:45:30 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ipc/shm: Increase the defaults for SHMALL, SHMMAX to infinity |
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On 04/19/2014 09:10 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 11:18 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: >>> Risks: >>> - The patch breaks installations that use "take current value and increase >>> it a bit". [seems to exist, http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139638334330127] >> This really scares me. The probability of occurrence is now much higher, >> and not just theoretical. It would legitimately break userspace. > I'm missing something. Manfred's patch doesn't actually change the > behavior on this point does it? If the problem is more than > theoretical, then it _already_ affects users, right? (And they would > therefore already be working around the problem.) The current default is 32 MB. if some increases it by 1 MB, then the result is 33 MB. The new default would be ULONG_MAX. If someone increases it by 1 MB, then the result is 1 MB - 1 byte.
-- Manfred
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