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Date:      Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:51:12 -0400
From:      James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SHMSEG and general shared memory settings
Message-ID:  <39B8FCE0.A1C65570@thehousleys.net>
References:  <200009081437.e88Eb7t03189@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> 
> In message <39B8EA14.D76BFDD2@btinternet.com>, John Toon writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Could I suggest that the generic kernel be changed from having a
> > SHMSEG=9 (as in LINT) to something higher?
> >
> > This setting is totally useless if you're planning on running XFre86-4.0
> > with something like GNOME; you simply run out of shared memory segments,
> > and consequently many programs just won't start up, issuing "X error of
> > failed request". The SHMSEG setting is also one of the "undocumented"
> > options in LINT, so consequently it was hard work trying to solve the
> > problem.
> >
> > I have since compiled my custom kernel with SHMSEG=1024, and everything
> > works beautifully.
> 
Where is there docs on each of these?  After sequence of errors
ports/misc/amanda24 won't flush failed dumps due to shmget error.

Jim
-- 
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