Chris Ruprecht <chrup999(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I can not ask my SA, I AM the SA ;-). And there are no recognizable
> files in or around the /etc directory, I can modify. MacOS X has the
> sysctl command, but there is no kern.shmmax parameter to read or set.
> This is a MacOS X SPECIFIC question, and solutions for other UNIXen
> don't quite apply.
Since OSX is basically BSD under the hood, I'd expect BSD-ish solutions
to be the place to look. Our notes about BSD systems say that a
kernel rebuild is the only way to alter SHMMAX on those kernels :-(
regards, tom lane