Re: shared memory settings in 5.3

2004-12-13 Thread John
Thank you for the quick reply. That was very helpful. I thought I'd post what I found out for the next poor knob setting up sybase; The default setting of SHMMAXPGS appears to be 8192. Default page size is 4K, which gives you the 33554432 kern.ipc.shmmax value from sysctl. This means (if m

Re: shared memory settings in 5.3

2004-12-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:52:20PM -0800, John wrote: > Hello, > I am setting up sybase 11 to run on 5.3 release and > want to increase the available shared memory for > sybase to use but am unsure how to do this. I have > seen references to setting SHMMAXPGS, but am not quite > sure how to set

shared memory settings in 5.3

2004-12-12 Thread John
Hello, I am setting up sybase 11 to run on 5.3 release and want to increase the available shared memory for sybase to use but am unsure how to do this. I have seen references to setting SHMMAXPGS, but am not quite sure how to set this or what units it is currently set in now. Any help would be