Re: Re: Shared memory for RH Linux 7.1

This value can be dynamically changed by:

echo "new value here" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

Glad I bought that expensive RedHat support contract!

-r

At 08:02 PM 5/24/01 +0200, Poul L. Christiansen wrote:

>I think you still need to set your shared memory size, because my Redhat
>7.1 gives me this:
>
>[root(at)localhost kernel]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
>33554432
>[root(at)localhost kernel]# uname -a
>Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686
>unknown
>
>I think shared memory is set this low for compatability reasons, but I'm
>not sure.
>
>Poul L. Christiansen
>
>Tony Reina wrote:
> >
> > In the past, I had to change the RedHat Linux kernel so that the
> > shared memory was set to something much higher than the default (which
> > I think was about 32 MBytes). It seems that this is no longer
> > necessary in RH 7.1 (kernel 2.4). Can someone confirm this?
> >
> > -Tony
>
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