From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Mar 10 5:50:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from queeg.ludd.luth.se (queeg.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A8237BAC5 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 05:50:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rln@ludd.luth.se) Received: from speedy.ludd.luth.se (root@speedy.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.164]) by queeg.ludd.luth.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19315; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:50:08 +0100 (CET) From: Rolf Larsson Received: (rln@localhost) by speedy.ludd.luth.se (8.8.8/8.6.11) id OAA17788; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:50:06 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003101350.OAA17788@speedy.ludd.luth.se> Subject: Re: vic: shmat: Too many open files In-Reply-To: <1000309180641.ZM20247@wf-test.rrz.uni-koeln.de> from Martin Horneffer at "Mar 9, 2000 06:06:41 pm" To: Horneffer@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Martin Horneffer) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:50:06 +0100 (CET) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Martin Horneffer said something like this: > Hi! > > I'm using the FreeBSD 3.4 release. When trying to view "Places all over > the world" vic quits with the following message just after showing the > first few video sources: > > > 33 [root] vic-2.8: ./vic 224.2.172.238/51482 > shmat: Too many open files > 34 [root] vic-2.8: > > > What does this mean? How can I resolve the problem? You may need to add this to your kernel configuration: options SHMSEG=44 (or any larger number) Also check if you have any dead processes using shared memory with ipcs and remove it with ipcrm. -- Rolf Larsson http://www.ludd.luth.se/~rln/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message