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authorCarlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com>2013-01-04 15:35:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-01-04 16:11:46 -0800
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Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: document /proc/sys/shmall
Signed-off-by: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez@igalia.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -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