Re: [RFC -mm 0/6] sysv ipc: scale msgmnb with the number of cpus

Manfred Spraul
2008-06-07T14:38:25Z

Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net wrote:
> The size in bytes of a SysV IPC message queue, msgmnb, is too small
> for large machines, but we don't want to bloat small machines
>
> Several methods are used already to modify (mainly increase) msgmnb:
> . distribution specific patch
> . system wide sysctl.conf
> . application specific tuning via /proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb
>
>
Which distributions use a patch?

The whole configuration can be done from user space, thus I assumed that
a sysctl.conf value (or in the worst case: a dbus/hal daemon that
updates /proc/sys/kernel/msgnmb) could do the job.

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Manfred