Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:21:35 -0400 From: David Petrou <dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: shared mem default limits Message-ID: <20010423022135.A48878@amant.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
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Hi. I used to get a lot of errors concerning shared memory segments not being available. After doing some googling, I found the magic answer to my gnome woes. It turns out that running Enlightenment, gnome, and lots of windows quickly exhausts the default kernel limits on some shared mem parameters. This problem was discussed in -current in June 2000. After throwing in: options SHMMAXPGS=8192 options SHMMNI=4096 options SHMSEG=1024 my problems went away. (Problems would manifest themselves as windows disappearing when starting new apps, etc.) Perhaps we could up the defaults? Is there a compelling reason on today's machines to keep them small? david To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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