On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, "William L. Sebok" <wls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > # increase shared memory limits (for GTK+ applications) > > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 0x2000000 > > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000 > > set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100 > > Can I get away with something smaller for shmsys:shminfo_shmmax? > 0x2000000 == 33,554,432. I admin about 90 sun workstations and most > of them don't have that much memory. Sure. You can even use the default value of 1 Mb. I increased it because I had an app that used large shm segments, but I don't think that the Gimp will ever use any large segments (someone please correct me if I am wrong). The critical thing is to increase the number of segments that can be created. -Raphael
