Re: [PATCH] Sys V shared memory limited to 8TiB.

2013-04-11 Thread Robin Holt
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:07:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:42:23 -0500 Robin Holt wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:15:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:39:24 -0500 Robin Holt wrote: > > > > > > > Trying to run an application which w

Re: [PATCH] Sys V shared memory limited to 8TiB.

2013-04-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:42:23 -0500 Robin Holt wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:15:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:39:24 -0500 Robin Holt wrote: > > > > > Trying to run an application which was trying to put data into half > > > of memory using shmget(), we found th

Re: [PATCH] Sys V shared memory limited to 8TiB.

2013-04-10 Thread Robin Holt
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:15:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:39:24 -0500 Robin Holt wrote: > > > Trying to run an application which was trying to put data into half > > of memory using shmget(), we found that having a shmall value below > > 8EiB-8TiB would prevent us fro

Re: [PATCH] Sys V shared memory limited to 8TiB.

2013-04-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:39:24 -0500 Robin Holt wrote: > Trying to run an application which was trying to put data into half > of memory using shmget(), we found that having a shmall value below > 8EiB-8TiB would prevent us from using anything more than 8TiB. By setting > kernel.shmall greater that

[PATCH] Sys V shared memory limited to 8TiB.

2013-04-09 Thread Robin Holt
Trying to run an application which was trying to put data into half of memory using shmget(), we found that having a shmall value below 8EiB-8TiB would prevent us from using anything more than 8TiB. By setting kernel.shmall greater that 8EiB-8TiB would make the job work. In the newseg() function,