On 04/28/2014 12:09 AM, Simon Paillard wrote: > Hi, > >>From shmget.2: > ======================================================================= > SHMALL System wide maximum of shared memory pages. Since Linux 2.2, > the default value for this limit is > > SHMMAX / PAGE_SIZE * (SHMMNI / 16) > > Assuming a 4kB page size, this formula yields (since Linux 2.4) > the value 2^20 (2,097,152). > > On Linux, this limit can be read and modified via /proc/sys/ker‐ > nel/shmall. > ======================================================================= > > Linux 2.2 or 2.4 ? > > I understand from lxr contant this is actually 2.4. > http://lxr.linux.no/#linux-old+v2.2.0/include/linux/shm.h#L53 > http://lxr.linux.no/#linux-old+v2.4.0/include/linux/shm.h#L15 Thanks, Simon. Yes, it should have been 2.4. The fix is in Git. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
