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List:       gnuradio-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] buffer allocation failed
From:       Dan Halperin <dhalperi () cs ! washington ! edu>
Date:       2008-05-09 16:33:01
Message-ID: 48E29CEA-14E2-409A-9F6F-8EBA86E7B895 () cs ! washington ! edu
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On May 9, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Eric Blossom wrote:

> You're probably running into a limit on the total number of shared
> memory segments in the system (SHMMNI) or the max segs per process
> (SHMMSEG).  You can check the current values by:
>
>  $ cat /sys/proc/kernel/shmmni
>
> You can set the value one time using
>
>  $ cat 4096 >/sys/proc/kernel/shmni
>
> or arrange to have it always set by editing /etc/sysctl.conf

Yeah, that must be it. (I don't have root on the cluster but once I  
get support to change it I'll see if that works.)

Just FYI, I found the file at /proc/sys/kernel not /sys/proc/kernel.  
And presumably it's echo 4096>shmmni not cat 4096>shmmni ?

Thanks!

Dan
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