I looked at that already and it seemed high. Mine is also:
kernel.shmmax = 4294967295
I found the problem though:
max number of segments = 4096
segments allocated 4096
Fixed with:
sysctl -w kernel.shmmni=8192
kernel.shmmni = 8192
Thanks for making me look at ipcs again though.
Sebastian
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 30 November 2007 15:18
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with
hobbit-4.2.0 installed
FTR my Hobbit server:
-> sysctl -a|grep shmmax
kernel.shmmax = 4294967295
On 11/30/07, HAMPL Pavel <user-989294c2384e@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-989294c2384e@xymon.invalid> > wrote:
Hi,
What about to increase shmmax in the system when it complains that cannot
get allocated new 262kB?
You can check what is your size: # sysctl -a|grep shmmax
This cmd says you what is already used: # ipcs -m
You can increase it in /etc/sysctl (just put there something big, it is
just
a restriction, kernel.shmmax = XXXX) and then apply it by : # sysctl -p
Cheers,
Pavel Hampl
From: Sebastian [mailto:user-7b2156f36779@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:47 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with
hobbit-4.2.0 installed
I uninstalled hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm and compiled hobbit-4.2.0
from
source with the allinone.patch and get exactly the same error.
It might be worth noting that this was originally a minimum CentOS 5
install
- I had to install gcc-c++ (and rrd-devel and pcre-devel) to compile
hobbit,
and I previously had to install gcc for compiling some other software -
all
from yum.
The server has 2 GB of RAM but is running several other services.
Any other ideas?
Sebastian
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 29 November 2007 18:44
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with
hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm installed
Just compile it from source. If you don't know how to do that I can give
you instructions command by command, just ask. I use CentOS5 on my boxes
but I've never bothered with the RPM.
On 11/29/07, Sebastian <user-7b2156f36779@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I installed an RPM of hobbit-4.2.0 called hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm,
which I probably got from here:
<http://rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-5/RE/repodata/repoview/hobbit-4-4.2.0-7.el
5.re.html>
http://rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-5/RE/repodata/repoview/hobbit-4-4.2.0-7.el5
.re.html
It includes the All-in-one patch. So I configured the cfg files and
started
hobbit, but I get this in hobbitlaunch.log:
2007-11-29 17:33:47 hobbitlaunch starting
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading tasklist configuration from
/usr/libexec/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading hostnames
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading saved state
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Cannot access checkpoint file
/usr/libexec/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up signal handlers
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up hobbitd channels
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Could not get shm of size 262144: No space left on
device
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Cannot setup status channel
2007-11-29 17:33:47 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1
This is the first time I've started it, so I presume that this is normal:
"Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk
for restore". The problem looks like this: "Could not get shm of size
262144: No space left on device". I see that there are two similar issues
listed on <http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html>;
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html that relate to FreeBSD,
but
none of the sysctl keys listed are in this version of Linux:
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.centos.plus (
<mailto:user-cbb31f498875@xymon.invalid> user-cbb31f498875@xymon.invalid )
(gcc
version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)) #1 SMP Thu Oct 25 06:49:40 EDT
2007
Google returns 1 result for "Could not get shm of size" "No space left on
device" and that was the Known Issues page I've already checked. Any
ideas?
Also, I noticed that the hobbitd.pid file did not get deleted when hobbitd
terminated. It seems like it should have been.
Many thanks,
Sebastian