RE: [Linux-ia64] Kernel Shared Memory Max (shmmax)

Seth, Rohit
2002-10-18T16:24:55Z

The restriction is coming out of default parameters set in Linux (file
include/linux/shm.h).
These values could be changed through /proc/sys/kernel/shm* interface. And
if a site permanentlly wants to have higher values for this parameters then
that can be achieved by something like rc.local

Have not seen any distribution increasing the default values for IA-64 yet.

rohit

> -----Original Message-----
> From: miyoshi@hpc.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp
> [mailto:miyoshi@hpc.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp]
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 6:07 PM
> To: rohit.seth@intel.com; dcooper@atcc.necsys.com
> Cc: ia64-list@redhat.com; linux-ia64@linuxia64.org;
> jfredin@atcc.necsys.com
> Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Kernel Shared Memory Max (shmmax)
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I suppose '8G' described below means default shmall, that is
> 524288 * 16K. And I think there is no restrictions around 8G on IA-64.
>
> Regards,
>
> > > And based on that the total amount of shared memory
> segment that can
> > > be created in IA-64 platform (with 16K page size) is 8G.
> >
> > Does this still hold true in newer kernel releases (since
> 03/2002)?
> > Is 8G the
> > max for IA64 kernel?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Donny
> >
> > On Thu March 14 2002 5:13 pm, Seth, Rohit wrote:
> > > shmmax is the size of largest shared memory (in bytes)
> segment that
> > > the kernel allows. System wide value of total shared
> memory value
> > > is given by shmall parameter. Currently the default value for
> > > shmmax is (extrememly
> > > low) 32MB. And based on that the total amount of shared
> memory segment
> > > that can be created in IA-64 platform (with 16K page
> size) is 8G. There is
> > > no direct relationship between shmmax value and the
> amount of physical
> > > memory available in the system. Though you will never be
> able to create a
> > > shared memory segment bigger then the total memory (Free
> RAM+Free SWAP)
> > > available on the machine (unless you change the
> sysctl_overcommit_memory).
> > > Besides that, this low default value of 32MB just adds
> overhead for big
> > > memory systems. It will be nice to change this default
> value to 2G at
> > > least for IA-64 machines.
> > >
> > > You can also change this value of shm* (shmmax etc.) by writing
> > > proper values in /proc/sys/kernel/shm*
> > >
> > > rohit
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Donny Cooper [mailto:dcooper@atcc.necsys.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:40 PM
> > > To: ia64-list@redhat.com; linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
> > > Subject: [Linux-ia64] Kernel Shared Memory Max (shmmax)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Does the maximum possible shared memory (shmmax) increase
> with the
> > > Enterprise kernel?
> > >
> > > Below is from doc/sysctl/kernel.txt document.
> > > Is this document valid for IA-64 kernel?
> > >
> > > It seems you can set this value to pretty much anything
> (even larger
> > > than the available memory), so I'm assuming the value gets
> > > intelligently truncated to the max supported. How can I
> check how
> > > much shared mem is available, `free` or `top` just shows what's
> > > used, right?
> > >
> > > ...doc/sysctl/kernel.txt
> > > ===============================
> > >
> > > shmmax:
> > >
> > > This value can be used to query and set the run time limit on the
> > > maximum shared memory segment size that can be created. Shared
> > > memory segments up to 1Gb are now supported in the kernel. This
> > > value defaults to SHMMAX.
> > >
> > > ===============================
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -----------------------------------
> > > Donny Cooper
> > > NEC Systems, Inc.
> > > Advanced Technical Computing Center
> > > dcooper@atcc.necsys.com
> > > -----------------------------------
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