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From John R Pierce
Subject Re: [Mac OS X Mountain Lion] FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory
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In response to [Mac OS X Mountain Lion] FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory  (Yvon Thoraval <yvon.thoraval@gmail.com>)
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On 10/07/12 6:30 AM, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
>
> What is the workaround ?

exactly what the error says to do, increase SHMMAX and SHMMAL in your
kernel configuration.   on differnet unix-like systems you do this
differently (/etc/system on vintage Solaris, /etc/sysctl.conf on most
Linux distros, etc).


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