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

Wes Young wyoung at nrao.edu
Wed May 23 13:34:03 EDT 2012


Try 

sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin=1
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni=32
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=8
sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=4096

then reboot.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On May 23, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Brendan Reardon wrote:
>> Yes
> 
>> 
>>    You did re-boot the computer this time?
> 
> Now this is a mystery - for some reason your machine is not reading or 
> accepting the file.  I had a spelling problem in mine on lion and it 
> rejected the file (quietly) during the boot - but I do not see a 
> spelling problem in yours.  What are the file owner, group, and 
> permissions?  It may require   root, wheel, rw-r--r-- on the file.
> 
> If all else fails you can instruct aips not to use shared memory but I 
> have our Mac expert (and the one with the big screen lion system) 
> looking at this.  HELP XAS will tell you about the ~/.Xdefaults file 
> that allows you to say do not use shared memory (among a lot of other 
> things).
> 
> Eric Greisen
> 
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