On 09/03/2015 01:56 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Robert Nichols wrote: >> On 09/03/2015 04:00 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >>> 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. emacs was just the messenger. There was a real problem with the game (which has nothing to do with emacs) grabbing all the SM IDs. Simple solution is to run the game under java-1.6.0-openjdk. It only misbehaves with java-1.7.0-openjdk. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.