"shared mem size" parameter and smbstatus

[Stephen L Arnold]

On 18 Jul 99, Lindsay Allen <allen at cleo.murdoch.edu.au> had 
questions about "shared mem size" parameter and smbstatus:  

[snip]
> Another view of this problem from a Debian/Linux box:-
> 
> smb.conf:-
> shared mem size = 5242880
> 
> testparm:-
> shared mem size = 5242880
> 
> /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax:-  33554432
> 
> smbstatus:-
> Samba version 2.0.4b
> Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> WARNING smb_shm_open : filesize (1048576) != expected size (5242880),
> using filesize
> 
> This occurs on all three of my Debian/Linux/Samba 2.0.4b boxes.

Why is the value samba sees:

filesize (1048576) != expected size (5242880)

different from the value in proc:

/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax:-  33554432

I'm no expert, but this seems goofy to me.  Guru-dudes (and 
dudettes) feel free to chime in).

Steve

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