{"id":392,"date":"2010-08-20T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-08-20T16:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T23:14:06","slug":"how-to-increase-shmmax-kernel-parameter-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"How to increase shmmax kernel parameter in linux."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Used the following to modify the shmmax kernel parameter in Fedora 13 after updating postgresql on a machine running WiKID for two-factor authentication.<\/p>\n<p>Modifies the parameter:<br \/>\n# sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=67108864<br \/>\nChanges the parameter so a reboot is not required.<br \/>\n# sysctl -p \/etc\/sysctl.conf <\/p>\n<p>To keep the new setting after rebooting:<br \/>\n# vi \/etc\/sysctl.conf<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nkernel.shmmax=67108864<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Used the following to modify the shmmax kernel parameter in Fedora 13 after updating postgresql on a machine running WiKID for two-factor authentication. Modifies the parameter: # sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=67108864 Changes the parameter so a reboot is not required. # sysctl -p \/etc\/sysctl.conf To keep the new setting after rebooting: # vi \/etc\/sysctl.conf &#8230; kernel.shmmax=67108864 [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,48,107,109],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-kernel-parameters","tag-linux","tag-shmmax","tag-sysctl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}