Problems with IPC

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Sep24.000946.20656 at psuecl.bitnet> bpm at psuecl.bitnet writes:
>communicating with each other.  My Unix system seems to have a message limit
>of 40 outstanding, and 4096 bytes total.  This is highly inadequate for my
>
>        2)  Is there any way of circumventing the Unix queue limits?

Re-configure the kernel (pay special attention to the tunable parameters
that start with MSG).

>        3)  Is there any way of creating a shared memory segment larger
>                than 65K?

Same as last answer although you should pay attention to SHM* in this case.

>        5)  What are some good resources for learning more about IPC (in
>                general) and Mach?

For IPC, you could reat the system V programmers guide.



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