kern/77353: grow SysV IPC kernel limits

[Devon H. O'Dell]

The following reply was made to PR kern/77353; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell at sitetronics.com>
To: Robert Millan <rmh at debian.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/77353: grow SysV IPC kernel limits
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:36:20 +0100

 On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 13:23 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
 > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:21:54AM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
 > > > --- src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC~  2005-02-01 21:44:25.000000000 +0100
 > > > +++ src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC   2005-02-01 21:47:12.000000000 +0100
 > > > @@ -49,8 +49,14 @@
 > > >  options        SCSI_DELAY=15000        # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
 > > >  options        KTRACE                  # ktrace(1) support
 > > >  options        SYSVSHM                 # SYSV-style shared memory
 > > > +options         SHMMAXPGS=4096
 > > > +options         SHMSEG=256
 > > >  options        SYSVMSG                 # SYSV-style message queues
 > > >  options        SYSVSEM                 # SYSV-style semaphores
 > > > +options         SEMMNI=256
 > > > +options         SEMMNS=512
 > > > +options         SEMMNU=256
 > > > +options         SEMMAP=256
 > > >  options        _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extension
 > > > s
 > > >  options        KBD_INSTALL_CDEV        # install a CDEV entry in /dev
 > > >  options        AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT    # Print register bitfields in debug
 > > 
 > > If I'm not mistaken, these can be set as sysctls. Take a look at the
 > > kern.ipc MIB.
 > 
 > You mean in runtime?  IIRC, some of the kern.ipc sysctl variables are not
 > writable.  Am I missing something?
 > 
 
 Correct, but I believe they can still be set in /etc/boot.conf simply by
 specifying:
 
 MIB_NAME="VALUE"
 
 --Devon