Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: SHMSEG on Sun Ultra ES3000
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:57:26 GMT
Message-ID: <Dzp0rr.6w@apollo.hp.com>

In article <54h2bu$27jk@columba.udac.uu.se>,
Sverker Edwardsson <sverkere@oopc7.kemi.uu.se> wrote:
>Tara Cox Matise (tara@linkage.rockefeller.edu) wrote:
>
>: I think I need to increase the system limit on the number of shared-memory
>: segments on my Solaris 2.5 machine.  I see from the Readme.mp file some
>: indication that this may need to be set in /etc/system.  I am not a system
>: administrator and we don't have one so could someone please send me
>: explicit directions for how to do this?
>:
>--
>I have the same problem...
>Someone, please post.

Add the following line to /etc/system and reboot:

set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=32

-- 
Weicheng Jiang, Ph.D.            Chelmsford System Software Lab.
PVM Specialist                   Network Computing Division
Tel: 508-436-4613                Hewlett-Packard Company

