From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 6:27:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C7237B77E for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01448; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:27:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:26:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Isaac Tee Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shared Memory In-Reply-To: <012301bfb025$8e0a9540$2ac110ac@sing.sg.publicitas.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Isaac Tee wrote: > Hello, > > What is the system maximum size for shared memory segments > on a "default" freeBSD system? > How can we increase this value? > Each process has a max address space of 4GB, some of them are already used by your text, data segments. You can use mmap() to use the rest. Anyway, this is not a FreeBSD specific question. Get a good Unix book and read it carefully. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message