Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 10:27:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shared memory problem, SHMAX kernel setting? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980127102706.16462I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34C81057.CA0B571B@partitur.se>
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to get the backup software Amanda up and running. Instead of > using the port, I tried the new beta, 2.4.0b6 (last beta, they hope). > > When running amanda 2.4.0b6, I get: > > ... > START driver date 19980123 > FATAL taper shmget: Cannot allocate memory > ... > > in the /var/amanda/log file. (Apart from the tape not working, amanda > seems to be doing just fine...) > > it seems to happen in this call: > > shmid = shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, sizeof(buffer_t)*NBUFS, IPC_CREAT|0700); You might be running into some per-process limits, depending on how big amanda balloons. Try running `unlimit' before amands. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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