[hobbit] Hobbitd settings in hobbitserver.cfg

[Francesco Duranti]

You did it right but you also have to change the shared memory
parameters for your system. The location of those parameters change by
OS type.
You can find a solution in this I think :
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/08/msg00183.html

Francesco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dunne [mailto:dunne at accuweather.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 6:44 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Hobbitd settings in hobbitserver.cfg
> 
> Greetings,
> 
>  Earlier today we added a system to our main hobbit server. 
> Upon adding the system we received a hobbitd msg of:
> 
> Oversize status msg fro xxx. xxxxx:ports truncated (n=294359, 
> limit=262144)
> 
> When I looked in the hobbitserver.cfg file to increase the 
> maxmsg_status setting I did not see a listing  for 
> maxmsg_status. Thinking that I was being smart, I added a 
> ling to hobbitserver.cfg for maxmsg_client. The line added 
> was as followed:
> 
> MAXMSG_STATUS="768"
> 
> I restarted hobbit after adding the line and saw the 
> following message in the hobbitlaunch.log:
> 
> 2006-09-25 11:48:12 Loading hostnames
> 2006-09-25 11:48:12 Loading saved state
> 2006-09-25 11:48:12 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
> 2006-09-25 11:48:12 Setting up signal handlers
> 2006-09-25 11:48:12 Setting up hobbitd channels
> 2006-09-25 11:48:12 Could not get shm of size 786432: Cannot 
> allocate memory
> 2006-09-25 11:48:12 Cannot setup client channel
> 2006-09-25 11:48:12 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1
> 
> 
> I removed the line and restarted hobbit, but hobbitd kept 
> failing. I tried rebooting the system, but hobbitd was still failing.
> 
> Ultimately I stopped hobbit, deleted the hobbitd.pid file and 
> restarted hobbit. All has been well since, excepting the 
> original oversized status messages. 
> 
> My question is, what did I do wrong? Where exactly should I 
> add the maxmsg_status line (or the maxmsg_client, 
> maxmsg_data, maxmsg_stachg for that matter)? 
> 
> I am running 4.2.0.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Michael Dunne
> Network Support Specialist
> AccuWeather, Inc. 
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