> IMHO, Sun needs to come up with a way so that we can increase the available
> shared mem on-the-fly, instead of having to edit it in /etc/system...

Solaris 10.

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0404/6mg74vs91?a=view#chapter1-33
[...]
In previous Solaris releases, IPC facilities were controlled by kernel
tunables. You had to modify the /etc/system file and reboot the system
to change the default values for these facilities.

Because the IPC facilities are now controlled by resource controls,
their configuration can be modified while the system is running.

Many applications that previously required system tuning to function
might now run without tuning because of increased defaults and the
automatic allocation of resources. 


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