Hi Neil, > However, the FreeBSD box I'm playing with isn't mine, so I'm not too > keen to change sysctls (well, that and I don't have root :-) ). Would > a kind BSD user confirm that: > > (a) the sysctls above *can* be used to change kernel shared > memory settings, and the default value of the sysctl is > the kernel option referred to in the docs.
Unless this has changed in 4.7, lots of those shm sysctls are read-only...ie. you cannot set the shared memory pool size at runtime. I'll look at it again tho. > (c) the 'prevent shared memory paging' sysctl vaguely referred > to in the docs is 'kern.ipc.shm_use_phys', right? I'll have to investigate that one... Chris ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster