On Thu, September 3, 2015 1:56 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 09/03/2015 04:00 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >>> On 09/03/2015 03:04 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: >>>> In CentOS 6.7, if I start emacs from a terminal session, I always see >>>> a message, "(emacs:{PID}): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No >>>> space left on device)" >>>> >>>> The message is also logged to .xsession-errors, and that occurs >>>> regardless of how emacs is started. The same thing occurs with >>>> SELinux in permissive mode. >>>> >>>> Emacs version is emacs-23.1-28.el6.x86_64 . >>>> >>>> Output from strace shows: >>>> shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, 393216, IPC_CREAT|0600) = -1 ENOSPC (No space >>>> left on device) >>>> >>>> /proc/mounts contains: >>>> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0 >>>> >>>> and "df /dev/shm" shows: >>>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >>>> tmpfs 8194164 172 8193992 1% /dev/shm >>>> >>>> I can't identify any behavior problems that I can relate to this, >>>> but it seems that something is wrong. Any clues as to what? >>>> >>> >>> just a shot in the dark, but what do you have in >>> /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni ? >>> >>> According to man shmget: >>> ENOSPC All possible shared memory IDs have been taken (SHMMNI), or >>> allocating a segment of the requested size would cause the >>> system to exceed the system-wide limit on shared memory (SHMALL). >> >> "cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni" shows 4096. >> >> And, I find that "wc -l /proc/sysvipc/shm" shows that they are indeed >> all in use. A badly coded java game appears to be the culprit. It's >> grabbing SHM IDs by the thousands. >> >> Thanks for the pointer. Your shot in the dark was right on target. >> > > Simple solution: vi. > Also: ed. Just to mention one more, though I prefer vi ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++