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If you run into semaphore issues…. First, determine the number of semaphores in use. ipcs | wc -l Then determine the current settings in the kernel for the number of semaphores. cat /proc/sys/kernel/sem Look at the 4th field. It shows the maximum number of shared memory segments for the entire system. If your number of [...]

First of all, let me apologize for not having any pictures to go along with this article. I was in a hurry to get the MacBook to start up and had to just do it. This deals with a white MacBook in the 2007 vintage. There have now been two occassions in which the MacBook [...]

I was installing APC on a server and ran across this error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 92160 bytes) in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/PackageFile/v2/Validator.php on line 1831 One would assume that fixing this would be to edit the php.ini file and change the memory settings. However, that is not the case [...]

Recently, I ran into an error while attempting to install a PECL package on a Redhat 5.3 64bit server. —- Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 23040 bytes) in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Builder.php on line 263 —- I checked the memory limit setting in /etc/php.ini and it was set for 16M so [...]