Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jun 2008 09:19:42 +0200 | | Subject | Re: [RFC -mm 0/6] sysv ipc: scale msgmnb with the number of cpus | | From | Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull ... | |
Manfred Spraul writes:
> > The size in bytes of a SysV IPC message queue, msgmnb, is too small
> > for large machines, but we don't want to bloat small machines
> >
> > Several methods are used already to modify (mainly increase) msgmnb:
> > . distribution specific patch
> > . system wide sysctl.conf
> > . application specific tuning via /proc/sys/kernel/msgmnb
> >
> >
> Which distributions use a patch?
opensuse has this:
"The defaults are too small for most users."
[...]
#define MSGMNI 16 /* <= IPCMNI */ /* max # of msg queue identifiers */
-#define MSGMAX 8192 /* <= INT_MAX */ /* max size of message (bytes) */
-#define MSGMNB 16384 /* <= INT_MAX */ /* default max size of a message queue */
+#define MSGMAX 65536 /* <= INT_MAX */ /* max size of message (bytes) */
+#define MSGMNB 65536 /* <= INT_MAX */ /* default max size of a message queue */
[...]
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solofo
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