Re: 2.4.0-prerelease shmget woes.

Gregory McLean (gregm@comstar.net)
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:53:10 -0500 (EST)


On 2 Jan 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote:

> 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.

Yeah for some odd reason RedHack stuffed a 0 in there *grumble*
That fixed it.

>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>

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