[hobbit] shm error on Solaris 8

[Charles Jones]

try running "ulimit -a" and see if you are being limited as to how many
open files or memory you can access. If so you can change the limit to
unlimited.

-Charles

Menton, Stephen wrote:
> I've modified /etc/system to include:
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=7
> and rebooted... but I still get the exact same error. What else must
> be changed for Solaris 8 ?
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Menton, Stephen
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:57 PM
>     *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
>     *Subject:* [hobbit] shm error on Solaris 8
>
>     I saw a problem similar to mine on this thread:
>     http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/08/msg00667.html
>     My situation may be a little different though. In my case I've
>     been tasked with running a hobbit instance in parallel with an
>     existing bb4 instance ON THE SAME HOST. I've modified my
>     hobbitserver.cfg to run on port 1985 but I get the same error in
>     /var/log/hobbitlaunch.log as David observed. A section of the logs
>     follows (similar messages repeat):
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 hobbitlaunch starting
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Loading tasklist configuration from
>     /opt/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Loading hostnames
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Loading saved state
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Cannot access checkpoint file
>     /opt/home/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1985
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Setting up signal handlers
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Setting up hobbitd channels
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Could not attach shm Too many open files
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Cannot setup client channel
>     2006-09-27 12:48:56 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1
>
>     Help? I'm not comfortable tweaking kernel parameters. Can someone
>     walk me through it?Should it solve my problems? Can hobbit and bb4
>     co-exist on the same host?
>     Stephen F. Menton メントン・スティーバン
>     Cingular Wireless, Business Consultant I
>     IT Billing Operations, Performance Monitoring
>     stephen.menton at cingular.com <mailto:stephen.menton at cingular.com>
>     (425) 288-7759 - office
>

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