Article 50731 of comp.sys.sun.admin: Path: mri.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!news.netserv.com!news.clark.net!mr.net!news-out.microserve.net!news-in.microserve.net!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!brake.demon.co.uk From: Richard Skelton Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Shared Memory Enabling? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 18:37:51 +0100 Organization: HOME Lines: 32 Message-ID: <324184EF.5234@brake.demon.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: brake.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: brake.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lyle Johnson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lyle Johnson wrote: > > I am trying to run a program on my Sun SPARCstation 20, running Solaris > 2.4, which tries to attach a shared memory segment but fails to do so. > When I type > > ipcs > > I get the message > > IPC status from as of Thu Sep 19 10:34:23 1996 > Message Queue facility not in system. > Shared Memory: > Semaphore facility not in system. > > Does this indicate anything at all? Is shared memory enabled on my > system? > > Help! Hi Lyle, You need to setup shared memory in /etc/system:- set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 0x2000000 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100 hope this helps Richard. -- Richard Skelton | e-mail : Richard.Skelton@brake.demon.co.uk WWW : http://www.brake.demon.co.uk/index.html WWW : http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/brake/