Re: 2.4.0-prerelease shmget woes.

Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
02 Jan 2001 22:38:43 +0100


Gregory McLean <gregm@comstar.net> writes:
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
> 0

That's your problem. Your limit for overall shm pages is zero. So you
cannot allocate any shm segments.

echo 2000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall

and check /etc/sysctl.conf or wherever your system stores kernel
parameters to restore on boot.

Greetings
Christoph

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