From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 28 18:54:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA02601 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:54:02 -0800 Received: from nudge.io.org (nudge.io.org [198.133.36.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA02592 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 18:53:55 -0800 Received: from flinch (flinch.io.org [198.133.36.153]) by nudge.io.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA05322 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:53:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 21:53:04 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao X-Sender: taob@flinch To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Increasing size of shared memory segment Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In the course of playing with the gimp image editor (see the freebsd-ports list if you don't know what this is), I keep bumping into the 4-megabyte shared memory segment limit. What is the best way to increase this size? Define SHMMAX in the kernel config file? Or SHMALL or SHMMAXPGS? The gimp documentation suggests a 32-megabyte segment size. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"