I found this bug while looking for a way to resize /run/shm on Ubuntu
13.04. Still I can't find a way to resize it (on my laptop for some
reason it is 600MB - out of 6GB total memory - I need it bigger to
install Oracle or DB2).
Net is full of advice to mount --rebind this to change it's size,
That work around is specific to configuring Oracle database to use the
/run/shm instead of the older /dev/shm. That was only part of the
problem. There does not seem to be anyway to change the size of
/run/shm. In the older kernels you could do this by changing the
SHM_MAX value in the
apport information
** Tags added: apport-collected oneiric
** Description changed:
I have 16 gb of memory and cannot figure out how to modify the new
/run/shm mounted directory. The default for this directory is 50% of
available memory and I need to increase the size to support multiple
There may be a workaround in the following forum:
https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2298493
Can you take a look and see if that solves your issue? If it does not,
please change the status of this bug back to Confirmed.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided =
