On 01 October, 2000 - Michael Natterer sent me these 1.3K bytes: > > Gdk-WARNING **: shmat failed! > > gimp: shmat() failed: Disabling shared memory tile transport. [..] > this simply means that you hit the shared memory limit which is > by default ridiculously low on solaris. The message means that > the low limit was discovered correctly by GIMP and that all > image data will go over the pipe (all plug-ins will continue > to work, however they will be slower than with shm enabled). > > To avoid this you have to increase the amount of shared memory > a process is allowed to allocate. The config file you have to > change lives AFAIK somewhere in /etc (and of course you have > to be root to change it). Add this to /etc/system: set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=32 Default is 5 or something, which runs out pretty fast.. bump it up even more if you want. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, stric@xxxxxxxxxx, http://www.ing.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,ing,acc}.umu.se
