Praveen, Yes, you can. And you have answered the how part of it urself - By modifying the /proc/sys/kernel/sem to the appropriate numbers. This is how I do it: "echo 32 65792 32 2056 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem" and it has been working pretty well for me. Suman Puthana, Member of Technical Staff, BroadWare Technologies. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Praveen Nair" <praveen.nair@patni.com> To: <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:36 PM Subject: Semaphore limits!! > Hi, > ipcs -l tells me that the limit for number of semaphore arrays is 128 > where each array can grow upto 250 semaphores...now my question > is, can i have more than 128 semaphore arrays if i can live with lesser > number of semaphores per array, the limit for system wide semaphore > not exceeding?? > another doubt is can i modify the /proc/sys/kernel/sem file for the same?? > > any help is valuable :) > > Thanks in advance.. > > -praveen. > > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
