Re: [e-users] MIT-SHM Errors

[Christopher 's. R. <cro...@no...>]

bri...@ic... wrote on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 11:35:14AM -0400
> Ignore bri...@ve... wrong email address respond to this one
> thanks.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response guys, I checked my Kernel and that line is
> already there and already turned on. hehe and sorry about forgetting to
> mention that I am using FreeBSD 4.3 the O/S.
> 
> options		SYSVSHM
> 
> I checked the LINT file do I need to add any of these to the Kernel, if so 
> 
> options         SHMMAXPGS=1025  # max amount of shared memory pages (4k on
> i386)
> options         SHMALL=1025     # max amount of shared memory (bytes)
> options         SHMMAX="(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)"
>                                 # max shared memory segment size (bytes)
> options         SHMMIN=2        # min shared memory segment size (bytes)
> options         SHMMNI=33       # max number of shared memory identifiers
> options         SHMSEG=9        # max shared memory segments per process

Those shouldn't be needed, are you sure your kernel is based on that config ?

type sysctl -Aa | grep shm and tell me what it says

> > > Quoth Christopher 'smugg' Rosendahl:
> > > > I assume you are using FreeBSD by reading your mail headers.
> > > > This is actually not a imlib issue or a enlightenment issue.
> > > > This actually has with the FreeBSD kernel to do. All you need to do
> > > > is reconfigure and recompile your kernel. Put this:
> > > > 	options		SYSVSHM
> > > > line in your kernel config and all should be fine..
> > > 
> > > Glad you twigged on that one smugg, I was about to ask Brian which Linux
> > > distro he was running.  =)