Hobbitd settings in hobbitserver.cfg

You did it right but you also have to change the shared memory
parameters for your system. The location of those parameters change by
OS type.
You can find a solution in this I think :
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/08/msg00183.html

Francesco

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dunne [mailto:user-cb942661a22f@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 6:44 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Hobbitd settings in hobbitserver.cfg

Greetings,

 Earlier today we added a system to our main hobbit server. Upon adding the system we received a hobbitd msg of:

Oversize status msg fro xxx. xxxxx:ports truncated (n=294359, limit=262144)

When I looked in the hobbitserver.cfg file to increase the maxmsg_status setting I did not see a listing  for maxmsg_status. Thinking that I was being smart, I added a ling to hobbitserver.cfg for maxmsg_client. The line added was as followed:

MAXMSG_STATUS="768"

I restarted hobbit after adding the line and saw the following message in the hobbitlaunch.log:

2006-09-25 11:48:12 Loading hostnames
2006-09-25 11:48:12 Loading saved state
2006-09-25 11:48:12 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
2006-09-25 11:48:12 Setting up signal handlers
2006-09-25 11:48:12 Setting up hobbitd channels
2006-09-25 11:48:12 Could not get shm of size 786432: Cannot allocate memory
2006-09-25 11:48:12 Cannot setup client channel
2006-09-25 11:48:12 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1


I removed the line and restarted hobbit, but hobbitd kept failing. I tried rebooting the system, but hobbitd was still failing.

Ultimately I stopped hobbit, deleted the hobbitd.pid file and restarted hobbit. All has been well since, excepting the original oversized status messages. 
My question is, what did I do wrong? Where exactly should I add the maxmsg_status line (or the maxmsg_client, maxmsg_data, maxmsg_stachg for that matter)? 
I am running 4.2.0.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Mike

Michael Dunne
Network Support Specialist
AccuWeather, Inc. 
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