[daip] Mac xas problem

[Wes Young]

Try pushing the shmmax to 16777216, you'll have to reboot.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On 19 Nov 2006, at 15:57, John Cannon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for looking into this.  The shared memory appears to be set  
> correctly:
>
> Hawkeye <1> sysctl kern.sysv
> kern.sysv.shmmax: 10485760
> kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
> kern.sysv.shmmni: 32
> kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
> kern.sysv.shmall: 4096
> kern.sysv.semmni: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmns: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmnu: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmsl: 87381
> kern.sysv.semume: 10
>
> Further suggestions?  Best wishes,
> John
>
>
> On Nov 19, 2006, at 4:20 AM, Wes Young wrote:
>
>>>
>> John,
>>
>> Let's try to tackle the shared memory problem first. First check  
>> that your shared memory changes took place on a terminal window do
>>
>> sysctl kern.sysv
>>
>> and make sure the results are what you set.
>>
>>> Thus, the startup seems normal, except for the memory problem noted
>>> for Macs.  I have a 23 inch screen;  I have thus edited the
>>> applicable line in /etc/rc to read:
>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760 kern.sysv.shmmin=1
>>> kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>>>
>>> This does not seem to fix the problem (even after system reboot).
>>
>> wes
>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>
>>
>
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> John M. Cannon
> Wesleyan University
> cannon at astro.wesleyan.edu
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