On Monday, 2 Oct 2000, Raphael Quinet wrote: > On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, "Dr. David Kirkby" <davek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who suggested I increase the amount of shared > > memory on my SPARC so Gimp would not disable shared memory tile > > transport. I added this to /etc/system: > > set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=64 > > > > after a reboot Gimp worked fine. > > FYI, I have added the following lines to /etc/system on all Solaris > machines that I use: > > # increase shared memory limits (for GTK+ applications) > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 0x2000000 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000 > set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100 > > By default, Solaris has a limit of 6 shm segments per process, 100 in > total, and allows a maximum segment size of 1 MB. You can check the > current values by running the command /usr/sbin/sysdef. By increasing > all of these parameters, I am sure that I can use many GTK+ > applications without warnings. Can whoever maintains the FAQ add a question on this to it, please? Also, the build instructions should probably mention this somewhere. Possibly even the configure script should print something if it discovers it's on a Solaris box, and grepping /etc/system doesn't return satisfactory limits. Austin
