Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ...

 > Yeah, I see it in the Mandrake kernel.  But it's not in stock 2.4.19, so> you can't assume everybody has it.>

We had this problem on a recent version of good old Slackware.
I think we also had it on RedHat 8 or so.

Doing this kind of killing is definitely a bad habit. I thought it had 
it had to do with something else so my proposal for pre-allocation seems 
to be pretty obsolete ;).

Thanks a lot.
Hans


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