Re: [ADMIN] Memory Problem

2009-04-04 Thread Flavio Henrique Araque Gurgel
Hello! > Thank you very much. I didn't know that. I set my shmmax to 40 but > you're right, we will see to use a 64 bits system ;) My experience with this amount of memory in Debian Etch works much better in a 64bit environment. BIGMEM kernel handles pages in a way that the performanc

Re: [ADMIN] Memory Problem

2009-04-03 Thread Nicolas Michel
Thank you very much. I didn't know that. I set my shmmax to 40 but you're right, we will see to use a 64 bits system ;) Le vendredi 03 avril 2009 à 12:37 +0200, Thomas Markus a écrit : > hi, > > i assume you have a 32bit system so you cant set shmmax to 4gb. as a > side effect your val

Re: [ADMIN] Memory Problem

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag 03 April 2009 Nicolas Michel wrote: > Why? Is there a limit to shmmax? Works for me on kernel 2.6.28.9. What kernel do you have, are you root and are there any logs in messages/warn or dmesg? mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660 /

Re: [ADMIN] Memory Problem

2009-04-03 Thread Iñigo Martinez Lasala
If you are working in a 32bit environment you cannot address 4GB per process. Try with 35 for example. -Original Message- From: Nicolas Michel To: [email protected] Subject: [ADMIN] Memory Problem Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:35:42 +0200 Hi here, Our server had 2GB of RAM

Re: [ADMIN] Memory Problem

2009-04-03 Thread Thomas Markus
hi, i assume you have a 32bit system so you cant set shmmax to 4gb. as a side effect your value 4294967296 in a binary 32bit representation is exactly 0. look for previous threads about shmmax. and use a 64bit system :) regards thomas Nicolas Michel schrieb: Hi here, Our server had 2GB of

[ADMIN] Memory Problem

2009-04-03 Thread Nicolas Michel
Hi here, Our server had 2GB of RAM. We added some memory to have 16GB. We are on a debian etch. I installed the "bigmem" kernel to use the all memory : ~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 16573232 kB MemFree: 15448836 kB Buffers:133772 kB Cache