Hobbitd settings in hobbitserver.cfg

[Michael Dunne]

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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