From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 6 11:18:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04449 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:18:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04378 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:18:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26226; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:17:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:17:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jacques Hugo cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xanim and shmget In-Reply-To: <34FFB323.41C67EA6@wired.ctech.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jacques Hugo wrote: > When I fire up xanim, sometimes I get this error: > > shmget: No space left on device > > Does anyone know what causes this? ENOSPC is returned if there isn't enough space to allocate the shared memory space required, either the system is ot of VM or you need more shared memory handles. The shared memory handles can be tuned by a kernel compile option which is in LINT. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message