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From: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:46:46 +0000
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Kernel Shared Memory Max (shmmax)
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David,

If you need any preference of value for shmmax, then please go with 4G
(though there are utilities that expect size of shared memory segment to be
only int :) but that should be fixed seperately). Could you please make this
change in your next patch.

thanks,
rohit


-----Original Message-----
From: David Mosberger [mailto:davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:32 PM
To: Seth, Rohit
Cc: 'dcooper@atcc.necsys.com'; ia64-list@redhat.com;
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Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Kernel Shared Memory Max (shmmax)


>>>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:13:35 -0800, "Seth, Rohit"
<rohit.seth@intel.com> said:

  Rohit> Besides that, this low default
  Rohit> value of 32MB just adds overhead for big memory systems.  It
  Rohit> will be nice to change this default value to 2G at least for
  Rohit> IA-64 machines.

I agree; it always struck me as a curiosity from days long gone... ;-)

	--david