--On Thursday, February 13, 2003 09:47:28 +0800 Christopher Kings-Lynne
<chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> 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
ler@lerlaptop.lerctr.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LERLAPTOP i386
lerlaptop#
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> Chris
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