From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756117AbYHUITR (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:19:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751036AbYHUITD (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:19:03 -0400 Received: from eisentraut.org ([85.214.91.16]:60502 "EHLO gattler.pezone.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750861AbYHUITB (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:19:01 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 628 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:19:00 EDT From: Peter Eisentraut To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11381] New: default shmmax Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:19:14 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nadia Derbey , Solofo Ramangalahy , Manfred Spraul , Pierre Peiffer , containers@lists.osdl.org References: <20080820120043.e6e7e436.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080820120043.e6e7e436.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808211119.15788.peter_e@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > It would be useful to get distro input on this.  Do they override the > kernel default at boot time?  If so, what do they do? Debian and Ubuntu have a sysctl.conf that is processed at boot time, but it does not contain anything related to shm* by default. Suse has a sysctl.conf, but it is not processed at boot by default. You have to activate a special boot service in the runlevel system to make it actually run at boot. (Try explaining that to a PostgreSQL user.) There is nothing related to shm* in the default configuration.