[daip] Shared memory id failure: cannot allocate memory

[Adam Ginsburg]

Hi, I resolved my problem by making the numbers bigger.

kern.sysv.shmmax=536870912
kern.sysv.shmmin=1
kern.sysv.shmmni=128
kern.sysv.shmseg=32
kern.sysv.shmall=131072

Adam

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Adam Ginsburg
<adam.ginsburg at colorado.edu> wrote:
> Hi DAIP,
>   I've been trying to work through the nice AIPS manager help
> document: http://www.aips.nrao.edu/aipsmgr/index.html but I think I
> might have exceeded its bounds.  I'm running Mac Leopard with two
> large monitors with 1920x1200 resolution.  I was getting the "Shared
> memory id failure: Invalid Argument" error until I changed sysctl to
> read :
> kern.sysv.shmmax=16855040
> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
> kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>
> Note that I had to round up from 3830*1100*4 to get a multiple of 4096
> And now I get the following:
>
> START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the
> START_AIPS:  - system name , AIPS type
>
> START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
>  (Using global default file /aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST for DADEVS.PL)
>   Disk 1 (1) is /aips/DATA/ETA_1
>
> Tape assignments:
>   Tape 1 is REMOTE
>   Tape 2 is REMOTE
>
> START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called eta
> START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on eta asynchronously
> START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on ETA asynchronously...
> Starting up 31DEC09 AIPS with normal priority
> XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on eta
> XASERVERS: Start XAS on eta, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-UOg2ei/:0
> XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on eta, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-UOg2ei/:0
> XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on eta, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-UOg2ei/:0
> TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC09) at priority =   0
> STARTPMON: [ETA] Starting TPMON1 with output SUPPRESSED
> AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   1
> AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   1
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?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: Cannot allocate memory
> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
>
>
> So... is this a problem with my graphics card?  Or... what?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>