[hobbit] Next release suggestion, msgs, ports?

[Lars Ebeling]

Just some info:
On HP-UX the default value of shmmax is 64M

on my 512 MB HP-UX server I have this
shmmax                  71582788    
shmmni                       400         
shmseg                       120         

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Next release suggestion, msgs, ports?


> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:47:42PM +0000, Gore, David W (David) wrote:
>> I am sure I am not the only one who has seen the message:
>> 
>> Oversize data/client msg from n.n.n.n truncated (n=787987, limit 786432)
>> 
>> I was wondering if there were any plans to put msgs, and ports in their
>> own channels to avoid that?  Some of our log file monitoring is done on
>> the server, additional log file monitoring is done using the old
>> bb-msgs.sh script.  Perhaps I could increase the shared memory sizes,
>> but I am not sure with only a 1G of memory available on the server.
> 
> Putting them in a separate channel would not lower the shared-memory
> usage. You would still need a segment large enough to handle the biggest
> set of "ports" data.
> 
> But on a 1 GB server, would it be a problem to allocate 1 or 2 MB for
> such a shared memory area ? 2 MB is only 0.2 % of the total amount of
> memory ... the only bothersome thing is that some systems have rather
> low default settings for the max. size of shared memory segments, so
> it is possible that you would have to tune some kernel parameters.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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