[Sunhelp] shmmax size

[Doug McLaren]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 09:33:49AM +0100, Eddie Watkins wrote:

| How do you determine what the shmmax parameter in the /etc/system file
| should be.
| 
| We have an E3000 with 786MB of RAM with approx 45 users on at any one time.
| shmmax is currently set at 16MB,
|  i.e.
| 	set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=16777216
| 
| Should this be higher and if so, how do I calculate what size it should be
| set to.

Most of the time 16mb of shared memory is fine.  Most applications
don't use shared memory, or use very little.

But you may have an application that requires more.  If so, you'll
need to increase this.

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