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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=100000000
From:       Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam () whitemice ! org>
Date:       2012-05-31 12:27:36
Message-ID: 1338467256.3128.3.camel () linux-nysu ! site
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On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 21:53 +0100, Peter Maffter wrote: 
> I was trying Avast on SuSE 12.1.
> But I always got an error message
> "avast: can not initialize avast! engine: Invalid argument"
> when scanning files.
> In the web I found the following site with a solution:
> http://manoftherambla.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/avast-can-not-initialize-avast-engine-invalid-argument/
> which states that I have to do
> sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=100000000
> as root, which did the trick.
> Now the question: is this something that I can tune in SuSE 12.1?
> Some setting to make it permanent (beside compiling a new kernel)?

<http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2011/12/really-shmmax-of-36mb.html>

Put a file in /etc/sysctl.d/

> Any disadvantages?

No


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