Is this max shared memory in Linux too high? This one seems default value in CentOS 5.6
cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
68719476736
That's 64G. Shall I change it? How much shall I change to? My server is only 1.5G
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Unless you have a problem with processes allocating too much SHM, there's no need to change this. | |||
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It's probably harmless, but you can change it by adding this to That sets it to 1.5GB permanently (the setting will be loaded after each boot). To adjust it on-the-fly: Do note that even though 64GB would be pushing it for a 1.5GB system (popular recommendations for this setting seem to hover around 80-100% of installed RAM) I guess that for some particular workloads you could want to base this parameter on the total size of the memory subsystem which, thanks to swapping and virtual memory, can be much higher than installed RAM by itself. | ||||
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