[perf-discuss] filebench on linux. Failed to create 221249536 bytes of ISM shared memory

2008-03-29 Thread Allan Tzeng
I did filebench1.1.0 filemacro workload runs on Ubuntu 7.10. Warning message regarding ISM shows up for a few "personality". "Failed to create 221249536 bytes of ISM shared memory on line 135" Since ISM is a Solaris only feature I am wondering if this failure to allocate ISM renders the run re

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench on linux. Failed to create 221249536 bytes of ISM shared memory

2008-03-29 Thread Rayson Ho
It is just trying to allocate a shared memory segment of 211 MB in size. On Linux where ISM is not supported (macro HAVE_SHM_SHARE_MMU defined to 0), filebench does not even try to request ISM. You can see the code in ipc_ismcreate() in filebench/ipc.c So may be it is your shell's limit or the ha

Re: [perf-discuss] filebench on linux. Failed to create 221249536 bytes of ISM shared me

2008-03-29 Thread Allan Tzeng
Thank you Rayson. I believe the HAVE_SHM_SHARE_MMU is defined to 1 in the 1.1.0-linux package. That may be the problem. Will try to recompile. Allan Tzeng This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensola