[hobbit] Hobbitd settings in hobbitserver.cfg

[Michael Dunne]

Greetings,

 Thanks to all that responded to my query. I increased the amount of shared
memory and that did the trick.

Thanks again.

Mike



>> 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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Michael Dunne
Network Support Specialist
AccuWeather, Inc. 
814-237-0309 Ext. 7661

~HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which
are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

(Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary")~