From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 10:29:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B0737B401 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:29:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay3.bu.edu (relay3.bu.edu [128.197.27.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F92343F85 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhoder@bu.edu) Received: from software15.bu.edu (software15.bu.edu [128.197.27.115]) with ESMTP id NAA05605 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:07:16 -0400 (EDT) From: jhoder@bu.edu Received: (from nobody@localhost) ((8.9.3.buoit.v1.0)/8.9.3/(BU-S-05/17/2000-v1.1)) id NAA27054 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:07:16 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:07:16 -0400 Message-ID: <1059584836.3f27fb44411da@www.bu.edu> X-Mailer: SilkyMail v1.1.7 30-June-2002 BU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: 128.197.245.169 X-Forwarded-For: 128.197.245.169 Subject: Gramofile X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:29:35 -0000 hello, i've been searching for a solution to the semaphore leak problem that causes gramofile to report "semget: no space left on device". this has been reasonably well documented in web groups. but first let me explain what i'm trying to do and maybe you have a suggestion: i've been looking for a simple audio metering program for my freebsd 4.7 box. something that reads the line input from my soundcard and meters accordingly. i tried esound but haven't had much success. gramofile, however, works fine until i get the semget error. and i tried tweaking my kernel with sema modifications which seemed to help a little, but still got the error eventually. i would be very grateful if you could tell me how the gramofile software can be patched to use fewer semaphores. if not, i'm curious if there's a way i could disable everything in gramofile *except* the metering? i have no problem with record and playback on my machine, just looking for a metering solution. any help you can offer regarding gramofile would be greatly appreciated. freebsd is the best os i've ever used. kudos to all who've made it so. thanks in advance, john