Re: How to PERMANENTLY set semaphores in Linux - Suse Personal Edition 8.2?

linuxquestion_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> HI,
>
> Thanks for your response. I'll show you what I did.
>
> file /etc/sysctl.conf
> /etc/sysctl.conf: can't stat `/etc/sysctl.conf' (No such file or directory).
>
> touch /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> ls -l /etc/sysctl.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 14 12:36 /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> echo `expr 2048 \* 1024 \* 1024`
> 2147483648
>
> Edit empty /etc/sysctl.conf, and add one line only:
>
> /etc/sysctl.conf:
> kernel.shmmax=2147483648
>
> sysctl -p
> kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
>
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> 2147483648
>
> Edit /etc/init.d/boot.local. Add:
> sysctl -p
>
> -----------
> Reboot.
> ------------
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> 33554432

Add it to "rc.local" to have it loaded during system boot.

/sbin/sysctl -p

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