Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:07:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Viktor Vasilev <viktor@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gimp fails suddenly Message-ID: <20031209160626.R25346@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20031208214856.GB303@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> References: <200312070945.hB79jKds039814@www.kukulies.org> <20031207113607.GB301@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> <20031207215711.GC301@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> <20031208214856.GB303@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Viktor Vasilev wrote: > > You probably need to add > > > > kern.ipc.shmmax="67108864" > > > > to /boot/loader.conf, then reboot your system. This should give you ~64MB > > of shm space. > > Uhm, I did what you had in mind, not what you typed in :) Added the line > > kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864 No, I meant loader. The sysctl changes the limit but won't allocate the memory. Theres a related one 'kern.ipc.shmmaxpgs' which seems to be the number of pages to allocate. As long as its a tunable it seems to take effect. > anyway, I compiled gimp1 (same version as before - 1.2.5,1) from ports with > debugging symbols and WITHOUT_PRINT=yes, and now everything's fine. Odd. Yeah, when you reported it I built the most current gimp1 port and all was well. Chock it up to a gimp1 bug perhaps :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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