[daip] AIPS - Shared memory ID failure: Lion equivalent of sysctl.conf

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Wed May 23 11:59:52 EDT 2012


Brendan Reardon wrote:
> When using the sysctl kern.sysv command, we receive
> 
>     kern.sysv.shmmax: 4194304
>     kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
>     kern.sysv.shmmni: 32
>     kern.sysv.shmseg: 8
>     kern.sysv.shmall: 1024
>     kern.sysv.semmni: 87381
>     kern.sysv.semmns: 87381
>     kern.sysv.semmnu: 87381
>     kern.sysv.semmsl: 87381
>     kern.sysv.semume: 10
>     kern.sysv: no such MIB
> 

This indicates that the desired values are not known to your computer.

Make a /etc/sysctl.conf file containing

kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760
kern.sysv.shmmin=1
kern.sysv.shmmni=32
kern.sysv.shmseg=8
kern.sysv.shmall=4096

Then reboot your computer and repeat the sysctl kern.sysv command.

Eric Greisen




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