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Subject: RE: [xine-user] xine on freebsd?
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Hey everyone,

> > Also, are you sure that you have enough shared memory on the freebsd box?
> By
> > default the amount of shm you can use is fairly small, and if you use
> GNOME it
> > will easily eat it all.
>
> I can't agree with this statement more.  Gnome/GTK is a pig on SHM, and the
> FreeBSD default make relatively low amounts of memory and segments
> available.  There are various kernel options and tunables that can be set to
> ajust this.

is there anything expect for

kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864
kern.ipc.shmall=32768

that is worth looking into !?

xine's documentation says to set these values already for a very long
time, as without such a setting xine won't run at all.

Heiko


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