Robert Nichols wrote: > On 09/03/2015 04:00 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> On 09/03/2015 03:04 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: >>> In CentOS 6.7, if I start emacs from a terminal session, I always see >>> a message, "(emacs:{PID}): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No >>> space left on device)" >>> >>> The message is also logged to .xsession-errors, and that occurs >>> regardless of how emacs is started. The same thing occurs with >>> SELinux in permissive mode. >>> >>> Emacs version is emacs-23.1-28.el6.x86_64 . >>> >>> Output from strace shows: >>> shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, 393216, IPC_CREAT|0600) = -1 ENOSPC (No space >>> left on device) >>> >>> /proc/mounts contains: >>> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0 >>> >>> and "df /dev/shm" shows: >>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >>> tmpfs 8194164 172 8193992 1% /dev/shm >>> >>> I can't identify any behavior problems that I can relate to this, >>> but it seems that something is wrong. Any clues as to what? >>> >> >> just a shot in the dark, but what do you have in >> /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni ? >> >> According to man shmget: >> ENOSPC All possible shared memory IDs have been taken (SHMMNI), or >> allocating a segment of the requested size would cause the >> system to exceed the system-wide limit on shared memory (SHMALL). > > "cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni" shows 4096. > > And, I find that "wc -l /proc/sysvipc/shm" shows that they are indeed > all in use. A badly coded java game appears to be the culprit. It's > grabbing SHM IDs by the thousands. > > Thanks for the pointer. Your shot in the dark was right on target. > Simple solution: vi. mark "someone had to say it" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos