[daip] Fwd: Fwd: Re: AIPS installation on Mac OS X 10.5.2

[Wes Young]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Gianfranco Gentile <gianfranco.gentile at ugent.be>
> Date: July 9, 2008 8:16:27 AM MDT
> To: Wes Young <wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu>
> Subject: Re: [daip] Fwd: Re:  AIPS installation on Mac OS X 10.5.2
>
> Great! The TV pops up now, thanks a lot for your help!!
>
>           Gianfranco
>
> FYI, my /etc/sysctl.conf looks like this now:
>
> kern.sysv.shmmax=16777216
> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
> kern.sysv.shmall=4096
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> On 09 Jul 2008, at 16:03, Wes Young wrote:
>
>> Indeed you have the syntax wrong. Here is my /etc/sysctl.conf which  
>> works...
>>
>> $ cat /etc/sysctl.conf
>> kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760
>> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
>> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
>> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
>> kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>>
>> I think we need to make it a bit more clear that you don't do the  
>> sysctl -w in the /etc/sysctl.conf file. I'll send some updated text  
>> to Eric which will hopefully make this abundantly clear.
>>
>> wes
>> wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu
>>
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:11 AM, Gianfranco Gentile wrote:
>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I checked and even after reboot when I type "more /etc/sysctl.conf"
>>>> I get the following:
>>>>
>>>> ~]$ more /etc/sysctl.conf
>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=16777216
>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin=1
>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni=32
>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=8
>>>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>>>>
>>>> And when I type "sysctl kern.sysv" I get the following:
>>>>
>>>> ~]$ sysctl kern.sysv
>>>> kern.sysv.shmall: 1024
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Now I have the doubt that maybe I haven't used the
>>>> correct syntax in "/etc/sysctl.conf".
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot again,
>>>>
>>>>   Gianfranco