On Thu, September 3, 2015 1:56 pm, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.
>
Also: ed. Just to mention one more, though I prefer vi ;-)
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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