[Glass] Problem starting GemStone from OSX app

[James Foster]

I have uploaded GemStone.app version 1.2.1 that should configure the OS to allow all the memory to be used as shared memory. I think this should address this error. Please let me know how it goes…

James
 
On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> No problem James. Thanks for the kind answer. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help. 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:19 PM, James Foster <james.foster at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
> Well, it is exactly this sort of problem that we are supposed to help you avoid, so a patient beta tester is appreciated! I'll take a look and have some comments later today…
> 
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi. I was trying James GemStone.app and I have an error while trying to start GemStone:
>> https://programminggems.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> The error seems trying to start the share page cache monitor. I did authenticated and included my password in the Helper Tool in the GemStone.app. 
>> 
>> I attach both logs. I think they key part is this one:
>> 
>> |   GemStone could not retrieve the IPC identifier associated with the memory |
>> |   key 973350908.  shmget() error = errno=12,ENOMEM, Not enough core (memory |
>> | exhausted, or user quota exceeded).                                         |
>> |                                                                             |
>> file not found: /Users/mariano/Library/GemStone/db1/locks/gs64stone1~a5c819a5365fda04..LCK  GemStone could not attach to the shared page cache.
>> 
>>   [SpcMon trace]: ... cache creation failed ...
>> 
>> 
>> BTW, my system.conf has this line (in case it helps):
>> 
>> SHR_PAGE_CACHE_SIZE_KB = 131072;
>> 
>> I tried decreasing this number but when I start from the app it seems it automatically set back the that number. In addition, from the UI I CANNOT change the 128 (it is grayed out). 
>> 
>> Executing this in a terminak: "sysctl -A | grep shm" gives me 
>> 
>> kern.sysv.shmmax: 147587072
>> kern.sysv.shmmin: 1
>> 
>> So...just in case, I tried:
>> 
>> sudo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=1073741824
>> 
>> But still, same problem. 
>> 
>> Finally, I don't know why gemstone pcmon log shows:
>> 
>>  RUNNING ON: 2-CPU MacBook-Pro-de-Mariano.local x86_64 (Darwin 12.5.0 ) 2530MHz
>> | MacBookPro5,1 2048MB 
>> 
>> while my machine has 8GB of RAM....
>> 
>> Thanks for any help, 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mariano
>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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> Mariano
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