[daip] Mac AIPS problem

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Fri Oct 6 14:20:25 EDT 2006


Jared Crossley writes:

 > XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
 > XAS: Using screen width height 2294 754, max grey level 255
 > Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument

The OS has a max size of shared memory which you can increase.  The TV
window size is enormous (do you have a double screen you luck dog?).
You need 4 * 2294 * 754 bytes (rounded up badly).  See

http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/aipsmgr/

for a FAQ that includes this issue.

Eric Greisen




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