[daip] Aips on Mac OS 10.5 TV problem

Thu Jul 3 18:31:52 EDT 2008

Try setting your shmmax to

16777216

Your value of 16777212 is not an integral number of pages hence the  
value is not taken.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu

On Jul 3, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Robert Mutel wrote:

> Hi Eric (?),
>
> I am having exactly the same problem as Geofranco Gentile (daip  
> email, June 5,2008) :
> I cannot get the aips TV working on 24-inch iMac running Leopard  
> [10.5.3 in my case]. Everything
> else, (msgsrv, teksrv, task, etc) works fine. The startup looks like:
>
> [LOCALHOST:~] robert% aips tv=local
> START_AIPS: Will use or start first available Unix Socket based TV
> START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the Dell5200
> START_AIPS:  - system name ETH_M5200, AIPS type PS
>
> START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
>   (Using global default file /Volumes/FW160/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST  
> for DADEVS.PL)
>    Disk 1 (1) is /Volumes/FW160/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1
>
> Tape assignments:
>    Tape 1 is REMOTE
>    Tape 2 is REMOTE
>
> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on localhost asynchronously
> START_AIPS:  - WITH Unix Sockets as requested...
> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on LOCALHOST asynchronously...
> Starting up 31DEC08 AIPS with normal priority
> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC08) at priority  
> =   0
> AIPS 1: You are not on a local TV device, welcome stranger
> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   2
> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   2
> UNIXSERVERS: TVSRV1 is already running on host localhost, user robert
> UNIXSERVERS: Start XAS1 on localhost, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-113JAi/:0
> XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!!
> XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
> XAS: Using screen width 3830 height 1100,
>      max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories
> Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument
> UNIXSERVERS: Start graphics server TKSRV1 on localhost, display /tmp/ 
> launch-113JAi/:0
> UNIXSERVERS: Start message server MSSRV1 on localhost, display /tmp/ 
> launch-113JAi/:0
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?
>
>
>
> I added a /etc/sysctl.conf file as instructed in the AIPS notes,  
> then rebooted. The file looks like this:
>
> [LOCALHOST:~] robert% more /etc/sysctl.conf
> kern.sysv.shmmax=16777212
> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
> kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>
> but the output of sysctl kern.sysv command looks like:
>
> [LOCALHOST:~] robert% sysctl kern.sysv
> kern.sysv.shmall: 4096
> kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
> kern.sysv.shmmni: 32
> kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
> kern.sysv.shmmax: 4194304
> kern.sysv.semume: 10
> kern.sysv.semmsl: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmnu: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmns: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmni: 87381
> kern.sysv: No such file or directory
>
> i.e., It appears that the .conf file (after reboot) does not take  
> the 16777212 value for shmmax.
>
> Any insight on this?
>
> Robert
>
> p.s. Here' the output of sysctl -a | grep kern
>
> [LOCALHOST:~] robert% sysctl -a | grep kern
> kern.exec: unknown type returned
> kern.ostype = Darwin
> kern.osrelease = 9.3.0
> kern.osrevision = 199506
> kern.version = Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT  
> 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386
> kern.maxvnodes = 66560
> kern.maxproc = 532
> kern.maxfiles = 12288
> kern.argmax = 262144
> kern.securelevel = 0
> kern.hostname = rlm-office.physics.uiowa.edu
> kern.hostid = 0
> kern.clockrate: hz = 100, tick = 10000, profhz = 100, stathz = 100
> kern.posix1version = 200112
> kern.ngroups = 16
> kern.job_control = 1
> kern.saved_ids = 1
> kern.boottime = Thu Jul  3 16:39:53 2008
> kern.nisdomainname =
> kern.maxfilesperproc = 10240
> kern.maxprocperuid = 266
> kern.dummy = 0
> kern.dummy = 0
> kern.usrstack = -1073741824
> kern.dummy = 0
> kern.netboot = 0
> kern.dummy = 0
> kern.dummy = 0
> kern.aiomax = 90
> kern.aioprocmax = 16
> kern.aiothreads = 4
> kern.corefile = /cores/core.%P
> kern.coredump = 1
> kern.sugid_coredump = 0
> kern.delayterm = 0
> kern.shreg_private = 0
> kern.proc_low_pri_io = 0
> kern.usrstack64 = 3221225472
> kern.nx = 1
> kern.procname =
> kern.speculative_reads_disabled = 0
> kern.osversion = 9D34
> kern.safeboot = 0
> kern.rage_vnode = 0
> kern.ostype: Darwin
> kern.osrelease: 9.3.0
> kern.osrevision: 199506
> kern.version: Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT  
> 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386
> kern.maxvnodes: 66560
> kern.maxproc: 532
> kern.maxfiles: 12288
> kern.argmax: 262144
> kern.securelevel: 0
> kern.hostname: rlm-office.physics.uiowa.edu
> kern.hostid: 0
> kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 10000, tickadj = 1, profhz = 100,  
> stathz = 100 }
> kern.posix1version: 200112
> kern.ngroups: 16
> kern.job_control: 1
> kern.saved_ids: 1
> kern.boottime: { sec = 1215121193, usec = 0 } Thu Jul  3 16:39:53 2008
> kern.nisdomainname:
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 10240
> kern.maxprocperuid: 266
> kern.ipc.maxsockbuf: 8388608
> kern.ipc.sockbuf_waste_factor: 8
> kern.ipc.somaxconn: 128
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 32768
> kern.ipc.soqlimitcompat: 1
> kern.ipc.mb_normalized: 0
> kern.ipc.sosendjcl_ignore_capab: 0
> kern.ipc.sosendjcl: 1
> kern.ipc.sorecvmincopy: 16384
> kern.ipc.sosendminchain: 16384
> kern.ipc.soqlencomp: 0
> kern.ipc.njclbytes: 16384
> kern.ipc.njcl: 10920
> kern.ipc.sbspace_factor: 8
> kern.ipc.maxsockets: 512
> kern.ipc.sendfileuiobufs: 64
> kern.dummy: 0
> kern.usrstack: -1073741824
> kern.netboot: 0
> kern.sysv.shmall: 4096
> kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
> kern.sysv.shmmni: 32
> kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
> kern.sysv.shmmax: 4194304
> kern.sysv.semume: 10
> kern.sysv.semmsl: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmnu: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmns: 87381
> kern.sysv.semmni: 87381
> kern.exec.archhandler.powerpc: /usr/libexec/oah/translate
> kern.aiomax: 90
> kern.aioprocmax: 16
> kern.aiothreads: 4
> kern.corefile: /cores/core.%P
> kern.coredump: 1
> kern.sugid_coredump: 0
> kern.delayterm: 0
> kern.shreg_private: 0
> kern.proc_low_pri_io: 0
> kern.posix.sem.max: 10000
> kern.usrstack64: 3221225472
> kern.nx: 1
> kern.tfp.policy: 2
> kern.procname:
> kern.speculative_reads_disabled: 0
> kern.osversion: 9D34
> kern.safeboot: 0
> kern.lctx.max: 8192
> kern.lctx.count: 0
> kern.lctx.last: 1
> kern.rage_vnode: 0
> kern.tty.ptmx_max: 127
> kern.copyregionmax: 4
> kern.lowpagemax: 202
> kern.himemorymode: 0
> kern.sleeptime: { sec = 0, usec = 0 } Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
> kern.waketime: { sec = 0, usec = 0 } Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969
> kern.hibernatefile:
> kern.bootsignature:
> kern.hibernatemode: 0
> kern.maxnbuf: 16384
> kern.nbuf: 16384
> kern.flush_cache_on_write: 0
> kern.always_do_fullfsync: 0
> kern.sugid_scripts: 0
> kern.affinity_sets_mapping: 1
> kern.affinity_sets_enabled: 1
> kern.singleuser: 0
> kern.bootargs:
> kern.msgbuf: 4096
> kern.wq_timer_interval_msecs: 40
> kern.wq_max_run_latency_usecs: 500
> kern.wq_reduce_pool_window_usecs: 3000000
> kern.wq_stalled_window_usecs: 20000
> kern.secure_kernel: 0
> [LOCALHOST:~] robert%
>
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