[CentOS] Increasing shared memory?

[Wayne Henley]

Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala wrote:
> Friday 12 October 2007 10:37:42 Christian Nygaard napisał(a):
>> I have a machine with fairly much memory 16GB and I get
>> shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device). It seems
>> that I may be out of shared memory, how do I increase that?
>>
>> $ free
>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:      14976000   14945552      30448          0     146560    1298908
>> -/+ buffers/cache:   13500084    1475916
>> Swap:     18448376    6730856   11717520
> 
> Is this a DB server (Oracle maybe?) What is ipsc -l and ipcs -p saying
> 
> Regards,

You can try tweaking SHMMAX and SHMMIN in the with sysctl or in 
/etc/sysctl.conf