Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re:

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Thursday, February 13, 2003 09:47:28 +0800 Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Seriously, I know Linux can change these on the fly, and I'm pretty sure
Solaris can too.  I haven't played with BSD for a while so can't speak
about that.  Anyone else know?

You cannot change SHMMAX on the fly on FreeBSD.

Yes you can, on recent 4-STABLE:

Password:
lerlaptop# sysctl kern.ipc.shmmax=66000000
kern.ipc.shmmax: 33554432 -> 66000000
lerlaptop#uname -a
FreeBSD lerlaptop.lerctr.org 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #38: Mon Feb 3 21:51:25 CST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LERLAPTOP i386
lerlaptop#

Chris


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