That was a typo in my comment before the code (the nutshell

descriptions after the code are correct). Only shmmax needs to be
multiples of the page size (at least, that's how I interpret the
Darwin code).

Chris Campbell

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index fad97ce31f3232e9bf5352909c599335bc54ffa4..8036944cab44e37bb65a99f4b1d6e36a1633739f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -897,8 +897,8 @@ sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall
        
         SHMALL is measured in 4KB pages on this platform,
         and recent releases of OS X reject attempts to set 
-        SHMALL and SHMMAX to a value 
-        that isn't an exact multiple of 4096.
+        and SHMMAX to a value that isn't an exact 
+        multiple of 4096.