Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Christian Peron : > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:58:09AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > [..] > > > > Why isn't the field an unsigned int / size_t? I don't see much value > > in having the size be signed... > > No idea :) This code long predates me. It's that way because the o

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-23 Thread Christian Peron
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:58:09AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: [..] > > Why isn't the field an unsigned int / size_t? I don't see much value > in having the size be signed... No idea :) This code long predates me. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.or

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Christian Peron wrote: This issue has come up a number of times. I was looking into fixing this but I just have not had the time. The basic issue is our shmid_ds structure: struct shmid_ds { struct ipc_perm shm_perm; /* operation permission st

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-23 Thread Christian Peron
This issue has come up a number of times. I was looking into fixing this but I just have not had the time. The basic issue is our shmid_ds structure: struct shmid_ds { struct ipc_perm shm_perm; /* operation permission structure */ int shm_segsz; /* size of s

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> On Wed, 2006-Dec-13 10:50:21 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > >In response to Bill Moran : > >> sysctl kern.ipc.shmmax=22 > >> kern.ipc.shmmax: 21 -> -2094967296 Someone was nice enough to file a PR related to this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/130274 We'd be happy

Re: removal of NGROUPS_MAX dependancy from base

2009-02-23 Thread n0g0013
On 22.02-16:28, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:07:19AM +, ttw+...@cobbled.net wrote: > > On 21.02-22:49, Julian Elischer wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > >this patch should remove the dependancy on the definition of > > > >NGROUPS_MAX as a static constant and implement it as a writabl