John, 

I guess you're right, in a way.  But actually, it -is- easy to change so they are 
effective at the next boot.  it seems all you need to do is encode these values in 
/etc/sysctl.conf, then reboot.  

As we know with VM it's not always a good idea to try to change certain operating 
system values while the system runs.  The purpose of my question was to find out if 
someone knew that it's -always- safe to change values such as these while Linux runs.  
(Maybe that's a hard-and-fast rule regarding the externalization of the kernal 
settings... maybe not.)  My goal in asking was to attempt to avoid an unneeded outage 
if possible.  

-----Original Message-----
From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Semaphores


> Is there a way to change "on the fly" the semaphores per userid?  I understan
> d they are in /proc/kernel/sem.  Is it safe to change them while Linux is run
> ning?
>

<--> It's fairly hard to change them when Linux is not running.


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