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Date:      Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:07:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Viktor Vasilev <viktor@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gimp fails suddenly
Message-ID:  <20031209160626.R25346@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031208214856.GB303@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
References:  <200312070945.hB79jKds039814@www.kukulies.org> <20031207113607.GB301@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> <20031207215711.GC301@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> <20031208214856.GB303@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Viktor Vasilev wrote:

> > You probably need to add
> >
> > kern.ipc.shmmax="67108864"
> >
> > to /boot/loader.conf, then reboot your system.  This should give you ~64MB
> > of shm space.
>
> Uhm, I did what you had in mind, not what you typed in :) Added the line
>
> kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864

No, I meant loader. The sysctl changes the limit but won't allocate the
memory.  Theres a related one 'kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs' which seems to be the
number of pages to allocate.  As long as its a tunable it seems to take
effect.

> anyway, I compiled gimp1 (same version as before - 1.2.5,1) from ports with
> debugging symbols and WITHOUT_PRINT=yes, and now everything's fine. Odd.

Yeah, when you reported it I built the most current gimp1 port and all was
well. Chock it up to a gimp1 bug perhaps :)

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