Re: HP Shared Memory Limits

> What we can't figure out is where the limitation on initial memory coming > from? We are wanting to increase buffers even more and are willing to add > physical memory to the system so that we can force residency on all > segments, but if we can't get past the 1.3 GB startup, there is not much > hope of increasing buffers significantly, since we don't want to lower > SHMVIRTSIZE any further (and actually want to return SHMVIRTSIZE to our > previous setting of 800000 while retaining/increasing the BUFFER setting of > 345000 ). Decreasing SHMVIRTSIZE will require us to continue to add a > virtual segment, which has a detrimental effect on performance. Just a shot in the dark: What is the value of the kernel parameter shmmax? Mark Collins mcollins@us.dhl.com Dilbert is a documentary.