>This is true. You can adjust the value in the /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
>file. If you change the value it will be reset when you reboot, so you
>will need to write a start-up script to always change this value if you
>want it to be permanent.
>
>-r
>
>At 09:51 AM 5/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>In the past, I had to change the RedHat Linux kernel so that the
>>shared memory was set to something much higher than the default (which
>>I think was about 32 MBytes). It seems that this is no longer
>>necessary in RH 7.1 (kernel 2.4). Can someone confirm this?
>>
>>-Tony
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