[SunHELP] Help:Adjusting the values of semaphore and shared memory.

[Dale Ghent]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, gsd wrote:

| Dear Friends,
| I m on Sparcstation 5 having 32Mb memory and running solaris 2.5.1.I was
| trying to adjust the value of semaphore and shared memory by adding the
| following entry in /etc/system file.
|
| set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=10485760
| set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
| set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
| set semsys:seminfo_semmns=60
| set semsys:seminfo_semmni=10
|
| After adding the above entries in the /etc/system file I rebooted the system
| with boot -r command and checked with sysdef command but value doesn't come in
| the effect.I wondered,sysadminguide suggest the same procedure as i follow.wat
| could be  wrong with it? pls suggest the possible cause and wat shold i check.

That's because you set the max shared memory size to it's system default
of 1MB. Of course you wouldnt see a change then :)

/dale