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From: yoav@Athena.MIT.edu (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Shared Memory??
Date: 24 Sep 1995 08:17:06 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In-reply-to: Sergio Mendiola's message of Sat, 23 Sep 1995 18:38:22 -0400


Looking at the config file:

options        SHMMAXPGS=1024  # 1024 pages is the default

presumably, change that to whatever value you like
(most systems have 4k or sometimes 8k pages)

this does require a recompilation, and I am not aware
of a method of allowing for more without it.
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