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:dunne at accuweather.com] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 6:44 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk 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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