[daip] AIPS help needed

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed May 23 16:03:00 EDT 2007


Xi Chen writes:

 > Thanks so much for helping me out. But it seems I still need a bit more 
 > help. I did the same change in XASERVERS for TEKSRV, and also moved (not 
 > copy?) UNIXSERVERS from $SYSUNIX to $SYSLOCAL and did the same change.
 > 
 > So now my TEKSRV and MSGSRV windows are finally settled. However, the 
 > XAS window is gone. Below is the error msg poped while starting up aips.
 > 
 > XASERVERS: Start XAS on starrynight, DISPLAY :0
 > XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
 > XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
 > XAS: Using screen width height 1670 950, max grey level 255
 > Shared memory id failure: Cannot allocate memory

This comes from the maximum shared memory segment on your machine
being too small for the more than 6 Mbytes needed by your largish
display terminal.  See

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

for information.

Eric Greisen




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