Hi Neil,
> However, the FreeBSD box I'm playing with isn't mine, so I'm not too
> keen to change sysctls (well, that and I don't have root :-) ). Would
> a kind BSD user confirm that:
>
> (a) the sysctls above *can* be used to change kernel shared
> memory settings, and the default value of the sysctl is
> the kernel option referred to in the docs.
Unless this has changed in 4.7, lots of those shm sysctls are
read-only...ie. you cannot set the shared memory pool size at runtime. I'll
look at it again tho.
> (c) the 'prevent shared memory paging' sysctl vaguely referred
> to in the docs is 'kern.ipc.shm_use_phys', right?
I'll have to investigate that one...
Chris