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From: denny@tss.com (Denny Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BEWARE ftio(1) caveat
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Date: 17 May 91 19:55:51 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jeff@dsndata.uucp's message of 10 May 91 18:25:42 GMT

>         If you are going to do a mass restore of anything using ftio,
> you need to have the 'shmbrk' variable in your kernel set to a minimum
> of 256 and probably higher.

The default setting of shmbrk has always been a severe annoyance to
applications making real use of shared memory.  For our workstations,
we require shmbrk > 3000, servers higher still.

This problem goes away in 8.01/8.05 (at least on the 700s).

Btw: Hi guys :-).

Denny