From 358e419f826b552c9d795bcd3820597217692461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:35:05 -0800 Subject: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: document /proc/sys/shmall Signed-off-by: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez Cc: Rob Landley Cc: Larry Finger Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Mitsuo Hayasaka Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 51b953a1b14..ccd42589e12 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -561,6 +561,19 @@ are doing anyway :) ============================================================== +shmall: + +This parameter sets the total amount of shared memory pages that +can be used system wide. Hence, SHMALL should always be at least +ceil(shmmax/PAGE_SIZE). + +If you are not sure what the default PAGE_SIZE is on your Linux +system, you can run the following command: + +# getconf PAGE_SIZE + +============================================================== + shmmax: This value can be used to query and set the run time limit -- cgit v1.2.3