From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 1 1:28:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.mixx.net (hermes.mixx.net [212.84.196.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C54737BE57 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:28:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from news-list.freebsd.current@innominate.de) Received: from mate.bln.innominate.de (gatekeeper.innominate.de [212.5.16.129]) by hermes.mixx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606EA5980E for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:28:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by mate.bln.innominate.de (Postfix, from userid 9) id 709B52CA6D; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:28:32 +0100 (CET) From: news-list.freebsd.current@innominate.de (Thomas Graichen) Reply-To: Thomas Graichen X-Newsgroups: innominate.bln.list.freebsd.current Subject: Re: Two queries [ KDE / XFree86 ] Date: 1 Mar 2000 09:28:32 GMT Organization: innominate AG, Berlin, Germany Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: graichen@innominate.de X-Trace: mate.bln.innominate.de 951902912 18974 10.0.0.13 (1 Mar 2000 09:28:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@innominate.de User-Agent: tin/1.4.2-20000205 ("Possession") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.0-RELEASE (i386)) To: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Rowley wrote: > Greetings, I'm just wondering if anyone has encountered the following, and > what solutions you may have come up with / ideas you may have. > This may not be a FreeBSD problem, since I am using the latest XFree86 > pre-4.0 snapshot. > First: > Almost every time I load a page in Netscape (latest port), I get the > message: > "XFree86-BigFont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24" with those options the error is gone for me - i think the relevant one is the SHMALL (the others are for postgres) - i found this out by simply reading the piece of source of XFree86 which emits this error and there is written that SHMALL should be at least 48M - so 16k pages = 64M should be fine options SHMMAXPGS=4096 options SHMALL=16384 options SHMSEG=16 options SEMMNI=32 options SEMMNS=128 t -- graichen@innominate.de innominate AG networking people fon: +49.30.308806-13 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de pgp: /pgp/tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message