Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...]

Adrian Bridgett (adrian.bridgett@zetnet.co.uk)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 18:41:39 +0000


On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 02:40:21PM +0700, Agus Budy Wuysang wrote:
[snip]

> Our current database size 1.6Gb, locks & buffers are
> using "large" SHM heavily. Due to Linux SHMMAX = 16M,
> allocation is divided into serveral 16M segments.

Doesn't "echo (large value) > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax" work? It certainly
alters the output of cat()ing the file. Or is it the #include file define
you are talking about?

Adrian

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