From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11381] New: default shmmax
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:19:14 +0300
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> It would be useful to get distro input on this. =A0Do they override t=
he
> kernel default at boot time? =A0If so, what do they do?

Debian and Ubuntu have a sysctl.conf that is processed at boot time, bu=
t it=20
does not contain anything related to shm* by default.

Suse has a sysctl.conf, but it is not processed at boot by default.  Yo=
u have=20
to activate a special boot service in the runlevel system to make it ac=
tually=20
run at boot.  (Try explaining that to a PostgreSQL user.)  There is not=
hing=20
related to shm* in the default configuration.