Eric and Wes -<div><br></div><div>I edited the permissions on sysctl.conf as you instructed to be, <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 111 May 23 13:09 sysctl.conf</blockquote><div>After these permission changes, I manually edited kern.sysv as Wes instructed me to do with sudo with no avail - the values reset once again after reboot. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As for potentially moving off of shared memory, I am currently reading this webpage: <a href="http://www.aips.nrao.edu/cgi-bin/ZXHLP2.PL?XAS" target="_blank">http://www.aips.nrao.edu/cgi-bin/ZXHLP2.PL?XAS</a> but when I go to access this "~/.Xdefaults" file that you speak of I am having difficulty. "more ~/.Xdefaults" yields no results. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Brendan</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Wes Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wyoung@aoc.nrao.edu" target="_blank">wyoung@aoc.nrao.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Try<br>
<br>
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760<br>
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin=1<br>
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni=32<br>
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=8<br>
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=4096<br>
<br>
then reboot.<br>
<br>
wes<br>
<a href="mailto:wyoung@aoc.nrao.edu" target="_blank">wyoung@aoc.nrao.edu</a><br>
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On May 23, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Eric Greisen wrote:<br>
<br>
> Brendan Reardon wrote:<br>
>> Yes<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> You did re-boot the computer this time?<br>
><br>
> Now this is a mystery - for some reason your machine is not reading or<br>
> accepting the file. I had a spelling problem in mine on lion and it<br>
> rejected the file (quietly) during the boot - but I do not see a<br>
> spelling problem in yours. What are the file owner, group, and<br>
> permissions? It may require root, wheel, rw-r--r-- on the file.<br>
><br>
> If all else fails you can instruct aips not to use shared memory but I<br>
> have our Mac expert (and the one with the big screen lion system)<br>
> looking at this. HELP XAS will tell you about the ~/.Xdefaults file<br>
> that allows you to say do not use shared memory (among a lot of other<br>
> things).<br>
><br>
> Eric Greisen<br>
><br>
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