Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 08:10:33 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SHMSEG and general shared memory settings Message-ID: <200009081511.e88FB7q03337@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:51:12 EDT." <39B8FCE0.A1C65570@thehousleys.net>
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In message <39B8FCE0.A1C65570@thehousleys.net>, James Housley writes: > This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. > > --------------ms28CD0BE7A5A52F2011B4B57E > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > > > > In message <39B8EA14.D76BFDD2@btinternet.com>, John Toon writes: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Could I suggest that the generic kernel be changed from having a > > > SHMSEG=9 (as in LINT) to something higher? > > > > > > This setting is totally useless if you're planning on running XFre86-4.0 > > > with something like GNOME; you simply run out of shared memory segments, > > > and consequently many programs just won't start up, issuing "X error of > > > failed request". The SHMSEG setting is also one of the "undocumented" > > > options in LINT, so consequently it was hard work trying to solve the > > > problem. > > > > > > I have since compiled my custom kernel with SHMSEG=1024, and everything > > > works beautifully. > > > Where is there docs on each of these? After sequence of errors > ports/misc/amanda24 won't flush failed dumps due to shmget error. I haven't seen any FreeBSD doc about any SYSV parameters. Personally, I use the O'Rielly performance and tuning book, though working in an Oracle ghetto does help understand the parameters. Sun has some good papers describing them as well. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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