From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266216AbUITLJS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:09:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266249AbUITLJS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:09:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:45718 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266216AbUITLJE (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:09:04 -0400 Message-ID: <414EBA3A.6010205@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:08:42 -0400 From: Neil Horman Reply-To: nhorman@redhat.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0; hi, Mom) Gecko/20020604 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Norberto Bensa CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Alfaro Solana Subject: Re: Is anyone using vmware 4.5 with 2.6.9-rc2-mm1? References: <200409191214.47206.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> <414E19DF.4090807@redhat.com> <200409192329.26604.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <200409192329.26604.norberto+linux-kernel@bensa.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Norberto Bensa wrote: >Neil Horman wrote: > > >>Have you accidentally turned down the maximum sized shared memory >>segment on your system, making an allocation of shared memory of that >>size impossible? >> >> > >Hm no, I think not; but how do I find that anyways? > >Many thanks in advance, >Norberto > > The values in /proc/sys/kernel/ that begin with shm defined the boundaries of what you can allocate in term of shared memory. i'm not sure if their meanings have changed at all from the 2.4 kernel series, so you might have to do some poking at the code to understand them. HTH Neil -- /*************************************************** *Neil Horman *Software Engineer *Red Hat, Inc. *nhorman@redhat.com *gpg keyid: 1024D / 0x92A74FA1 *http://pgp.mit.edu ***************************************************/