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Subject: Re: Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on
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From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 23:12, pirat wrote:
> hi sirs,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:30:56PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on
> > 	device)
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
> > To: pirat <pirat@access.inet.co.th>
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:47, pirat wrote:
> > > hi sirs,
> > > 
> > > during this morning, mozilla dies very often with strange message mentioned above. am using mozilla 1.1
> > > 
> > > what device does the message refer to ?
> > 
> > Looks like you might be out of shared memory.  You might trying setting:
> > 
> > kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
> > kern.ipc.shmall=32768
> > 
> > and see if the problem goes away.
> > 
> thanks.
> i still get the same printout after setting to new values.
> my machine is
> firak# uname -a
> FreeBSD firak.thai-aec.org 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #6: Fri Aug 23 14:56:15
>  ICT 2002     root@firak.thai-aec.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> .
> 
> this small one is a local name server to my private segment.
> will it cause any damage to my machine ?

No, these are recommended when running very graphics intensive
applications (such as DVD players).  You may also want to up
kern.ipc.shmseg from 128 to 512, and see if the problem goes away:

kern.ipc.shmseg: 512

Joe

> 
> with best regards,
> psr.
> 
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