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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Richard Whittaker <rwhittak@gnat.nwtel.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Semaphore and Shared memory questions...
Date: 20 Nov 2002 22:04:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037829889.5122.89.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021120131444.02482858@gnat.nwtel.ca>

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:30, Richard Whittaker wrote:
> Part of building this machine up is tuning the kernel parameters for 
> shmmax, semmni, semmsl, semmns, etc...
> In reading, this should be fairly ieasy... Make some changes to 
> /usr/include/linux/sem.h and /usr/include/linux/shm.h, recompile, install, 
> LILO, reboot, and yer done... Well, my experience wasn't that simple...

Well if you insist on hacking code paths not using /proc Im not
suprised. You also probably ended up with a non oracle certified
platform by doing so (if that matters)

The sysctl interface and sysctl setting tools on boot exist precisely so
you dont have to hack these things around

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-20 21:30 Richard Whittaker
2002-11-20 22:04 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-11-20 21:42   ` Richard Whittaker
2002-11-20 22:16     ` Alan Cox
     [not found] ` <sddb931a.041@nwtel.ca>
2002-11-20 22:17   ` Richard Whittaker
2002-11-20 22:33     ` Randy.Dunlap

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