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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:21:14 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Cc:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 3.9.18
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002240920470.54384-100000@tecra.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <200002240432.WAA36776@celery.dragondata.com>

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Kevin Day wrote:

> > 
> > That's odd... I just built it tonight, and I havn't had anything but this:
> > 
> > XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24
> > XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24
> > XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24
> > XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24
> > XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24
> > XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24
> > XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmat() failed, size = 4096, errno = 24
> > 
> > Which doesn't cause the server to crash, in fact, it seems pretty stable.
> > 
> 
>      24 EMFILE Too many open files. <As released, the limit on the number of
>              open files per process is 64.> Getdtablesize(2) will obtain the
>              current limit.
> 
> 
> 
> You can probably bump up your ulimit, and make this go away, too.

I'm pretty sure this error is generated when the server tries to use too
many shared memory segments.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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