Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com> writes:
>> I have asked Apple about using a saner default for shmmax, but a few
>> more complaints in their bug system wouldn't hurt.
> I suspect it won't help, since their official position is already "don't use
> shmget, use mmap instead"...
Given that they have improved their SysV IPC support steadily over the
past few Darwin releases, I don't see why you'd expect them to not be
willing to do this. Having a larger default limit costs them *zero* if
the feature is not used, so what's the objection?
regards, tom lane