SIMSN%NUSDISCS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (11/09/89)
There's a group of users on our system (AT&T 3B4000/15) thats running some communication process and they came across this: msgget err: No space left on device Can anyone help me out on this? Thanks. > Sim Ser Ngarn (Jnet%"SIMSN@NUSDISCS") > National University of Singapore > Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
mitzel@girtab.usc.edu (Danny Mitzel) (11/10/89)
In article <21406@adm.BRL.MIL> SIMSN%NUSDISCS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: >> >> There's a group of users on our system (AT&T 3B4000/15) thats >> running some communication process and they came across this: >> >> msgget err: No space left on device >> >> >> Can anyone help me out on this? >> >> Thanks. i assume you are using system V IPC (shared memory, message queues, semaphores). the error you received is caused by an attempt to allocate a new message queue (msgget(key, msgflg & IPC_CREAT)) which would cause the system imposed limit on number of message queues to be exceeded. on the system i am familiar with (sun os 4.x with system V extensions) the limit defaults to 50. however in this system it is a tuneable parameter in the kernel config file, you can try raising the limit by setting MSGMNI to a higher value.