Date: 10/05
Affected NV Version: All
OS Version: FreeBSD
Plugin version: N/A
Application version: N/A
Description: When nv service can not start and the trace of nv process manager shows the following, shared memory setting of the OS has to be adjusted.
2 PMGR :81644 25 0 233333 PmgrInitSharedMem
2 PMGR :81644 91 0 233333 lShmSize 512000, default 512000
2 PMGR :81644 92 0 233333 lTraceSize 7168, default 7168
2 PMGR :81644 93 0 233333 glProgressSize 1024, default 1024
2 PMGR :81644 94 0 233333 glProgressCount 20, default 20
0 PMGR :81644 27 0 233333 failed to get shared memory for process manager
2 PMGR :81644 35 0 233333 PmgrInitSharedMem return FALSE
0 PMGR :81644 158 0 233333 Failed to initialize shared memory
1 PMGR :81644 146 0 233333 FALSE = PmgrInitialize()
0 PMGR :81644 2 1 233333 Failed to initialize giveup
For example,
#ipcs -m
hminfo:
shmmax: 1073741824 (max shared memory segment size)
shmmin: 1 (min shared memory segment size)
shmmni: 192 (max number of shared memory identifiers)
shmseg: 128 (max shared memory segments per process)
shmall: 65536 (max amount of shared memory in pages)
#ipcs -a
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