Thread: Need larger shmget() size.

  1. 04-10-2009 #1
    endomlic
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    Need larger shmget() size.

    My shmget() limit is 100, yet I need it to be 10000. Is there any way around this?
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    100 * 4KB -> 400KB, 10000 * 4KB -> 40MB, which doesn't sound entirely unreasonable much. There is supposedly a kernel configuraition:
    Shared Memory Configuration

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    Quote Originally Posted by endomlic View Post
    My shmget() limit is 100, yet I need it to be 10000. Is there any way around this?
    Only by increasing the corresponding kernel parameter.
    On most Unixes it is shmmax, so check the local system docs.
    Btw what platform and OS are you on?
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