* Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> [010125 14:46]:
> David Chapman <dchapman@CS670402-A.gvcl1.bc.wave.home.com> writes:
> 
> >Still getting Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed! at times, but it usually is
> >not fatal.  Something to do with Gnome, I guess.
> 
> process which has them open has exited.  Programs normally delete
> them when they are no longer needed but if a program crashes, the
> stuff will hang around and eventually the maximum number of entries
> is exhausted.  You can check this with the "ipcs" command, and
> remove corpses manually with "ipcrm".
>
I ran ipcs, and there was no message queues, over 60 items shared
memory, and no semaphores.  How do I tell if these are left over?  Will
these only show up while under X?  I shut down X and reran ipcs, and
all the fields were empty.  I restarted X and the above figures were
repeated.  The times in ATIME DTIME and CTIME are consistent with the
time that X was started except for some of the DTIME entries which say
no-entry.

> This may be one explanation of the behaviour you observe, there
> might be others, of course.  For example, there's the (unlikely,
> with NetBSD's defaults, imho) possibility that there aren't enough
> shmem segments configured in the kernel, in that case you could
> increase the number in your kernel config file and rebuild.
> Apart from that, it could simply be gnome bugs, of course.
> 
My source tree kinda got trashed, so I'm unable to make a new kernel.
Perhaps next weekend I'll fdisk the drive and start over.  Just for the
exerecise, you know...

  Thanks,
   Dave Chapman
> 

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