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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:50:06 +0100 (CET)
From:      Rolf Larsson <rln@ludd.luth.se>
To:        Horneffer@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (Martin Horneffer)
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vic: shmat: Too many open files
Message-ID:  <200003101350.OAA17788@speedy.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <1000309180641.ZM20247@wf-test.rrz.uni-koeln.de> from Martin Horneffer at "Mar 9, 2000 06:06:41 pm"

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Martin Horneffer said something like this:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm using the FreeBSD 3.4 release. When trying to view "Places all over
> the world" vic quits with the following message just after showing the
> first few video sources:
> 
> 
> 33 [root] vic-2.8: ./vic 224.2.172.238/51482
> shmat: Too many open files
> 34 [root] vic-2.8:
> 
> 
> What does this mean? How can I resolve the problem?

You may need to add this to your kernel configuration:

options         SHMSEG=44

(or any larger number)

Also check if you have any dead processes using shared
memory with ipcs and remove it with ipcrm.

-- 
Rolf Larsson 	<rln@ludd.luth.se> 	http://www.ludd.luth.se/~rln/


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