From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 9 16:08:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2966616A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:08:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33B743D29 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:07:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A11FB72DB5; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0B572DAD; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:07:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:07:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Viktor Vasilev In-Reply-To: <20031208214856.GB303@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> Message-ID: <20031209160626.R25346@carver.gumbysoft.com> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gimp fails suddenly X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:08:01 -0000 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 :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org