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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:56:18 -0400 From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com> To: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>, aswin@...com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc,shm: increase default size for shmmax >> > Ah-hah, that's interesting info. >> > >> > Let's make the default 64GB? >> >> 64GB is infinity at that time, but it no longer near infinity today. I like >> very large or total memory proportional number. > > So I still like 0 for unlimited. Nice, clean and much easier to look at > than ULONG_MAX. And since we cannot disable shm through SHMMIN, I really > don't see any disadvantages, as opposed to some other arbitrary value. > Furthermore it wouldn't break userspace: any existing sysctl would > continue to work, and if not set, the user never has to worry about this > tunable again. > > Please let me know if you all agree with this... Surething. Why not. :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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