:..
:> while now, on a Pentium 166Mhz with 32M but around 100-150Mb or swap.
:>
:> Never had problems with SHM.
:
:i've commented about the problems with shm and a heavy enlightenment /
:gnome load a few weeks ago to stable, but my message was pretty much
:ignored.  also note that this issue has been brought up in current a
:year or so ago.
:
:my problems went away with:
:
:  options  SHMMAXPGS=8192
:  options  SHMMNI=4096
:  options  SHMSEG=1024
:
:i don't know enough about the internals to know the downside for using
:these high values, but i'm pretty confident on today's architectures
:...
:
:david

    In general there is no downside.  Shared memory is swap-backed
    (though the in-kernel control structures are not).

    I think it's high time that the system defaults be raised.  I'll do
    it later today.  You should also be able to raise the defaults 
    using appropriate sysctl's, e.g.:

    sysctl -a | fgrep kern.ipc
    sysctl -w kern.ipc.shmmax=33554432

    And, of course, with kernel conf variables.

                                                -Matt

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