[racket-dev] DrDr 'shmget' errors

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 15 15:55:33 EST 2010

I do not, but maybe these accrued because DrDr used to use a hierarchy of X
servers and Xvnc servers and maybe the VNCs were breaking it.

Jay

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> When I run `gracket' on one of my Linux virtual machines to an X server
> on the same machine, I see that a shared-memory segment is allocated
> (according to `ipcs -m'). But when I exit or kill -9 the `gracket'
> process, then the segment goes away.
>
> When I use an X server on a different machine, I don't see a new
> shared-memory segment.
>
> Do you see something different in any of those cases?
>
> At Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:16:24 -0700, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> > Alright. I have 4096 shared memory segments with nothing attached to
> them.
> >
> > I think this means that gr2 has a bug because it is not returning them,
> > maybe by not closing gdk properly?
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > We talked about it on IRC.
> > >
> > > I looked up the error and it says there is no more shared memory. I
> checked
> > > all my limits and they are all extremely high. I don't think it is a
> real
> > > problem with the machine, but I don't exactly know. If anyone can give
> me
> > > advice about what this means, let me know.
> > >
> > > Jay
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM, John Clements
> > <clements at brinckerhoff.org>wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm seeing this result from DrDr on one of my files:
> > >>
> > >> (gracket:19767): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space
> left on
> > >> device)
> > >>
> > >> ... and I'm assuming that it's a drdr issue related to running files
> that
> > >> involve graphical display, and that I don't need to worry about it. Is
> this
> > >> correct?
> > >>
> > >> Apologies if I missed discussion of this.
> > >>
> > >> John
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
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> > >
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Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

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