Andi Kleen wrote on Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:54 PM > > This might be too low on large system. We usually stress shm pretty hard > > for db application and usually use more than 87% of total memory in just > > one shm segment. So I prefer either no limit or a tunable. > > With large system you mean >32GB right?
Yes, between 32 GB - 128 GB. On larger numa box in the 256 GB and upward, we have to break shm segment into one per-numa-node and then the limit should be OK. I was concerned with SMP box with large memory. > I think on a large systems some tuning is reasonable because they likely > have trained admins. I'm more worried on reasonable defaults for the > class of systems with 0-4GB Sounds reasonable to me. - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
