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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Tushar Telichari <tushar@versant.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Shared memory problem
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:06:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F818505.3010801@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.21.0310061244540.20274-100000@dahlia.vipl.versant.com

Tushar Telichari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a process which requires about 1G of shared memory.
> There are multiple processes which are going to share this.
> I am able to allocate this by setting shmmax..etc. 

Your other option would be to create it as a file in the filesystem and 
then mmap it.  If you create a tmpfs filesystem and then mmap a file on 
it there will be no real file on disk.  If you create it on disk and 
mmap it, then you have the option of persistant storage is that is 
desirable.

Chris


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-06 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-06  7:22 Shared memory problem Tushar Telichari
2003-10-06 15:06 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-21  1:30 Shared Memory Problem David Relson
2001-11-21  1:54 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-11-21  8:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-03  8:49 shared memory problem Blesson Paul
2001-02-12 18:10 Admin Mailing Lists
2001-02-13 12:23 ` Christoph Rohland

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