Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 13:21:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 13:21:10 -0400 Received: from relay-1m.club-internet.fr ([194.158.104.40]:52208 "HELO relay-1m.club-internet.fr") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 13:21:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3CFA5411.3030600@freesurf.fr> Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 19:21:21 +0200 From: Kilobug User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020601 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkm Subject: Very big shm area Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I wanted to know if it is possible to have a very big system V shared memory segment (say about 1Gb) ? I've quickly looked into the source code of shm.c and shm.h in ipc/ and I've read the following: /* * SHMMAX, SHMMNI and SHMALL are upper limits are defaults which can * be increased by sysctl */ But how far is it possible to increase them ? And which sysctl must be done ? Thank you for answering, -- ** Gael Le Mignot "Kilobug", Ing3 EPITA - http://kilobug.free.fr ** Home Mail : kilobug@freesurf.fr Work Mail : le-mig_g@epita.fr GSM : 06.71.47.18.22 (in France) ICQ UIN : 7299959 Fingerprint : 1F2C 9804 7505 79DF 95E6 7323 B66B F67B 7103 C5DA "Software is like sex it's better when it's free.", Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/