I got shmat issues...

[sdabbs65]

Originally Posted by John Adams

I guess I need to learn what a shmat is.

Isn't it that monkey from buck rodgers?
http://man.he.net/man2/shmat

[John Adams]

Crap, now I know _everything_! What will I do now?

Thanks man, that sheds a little more light on the problem.

[Lalolyen]

JA are you still having this problem? I think I hit a problem simular to this about a week ago and fixed it....

[John Adams]

Only when I source in the new 13th Floor items list on Linux, yes.

The PEQ Items table is fine.

I'll take a fix if ya got one.

[WildcardX]

Has anyone found a fix for this? I'm starting to look at this myself and am somewhat baffled by why the shmget function call is failing at line 205 of MMF.cpp.

[WildcardX]

The solution to this problem isnt in the server code. Its fixable by your distros configuration. You need to increase the value in your /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax file to some value greater than 32 MB. The value in that files in is bytes and its probably going to vary from distro to distro. I'm not sure what a good value is, but i can confirm setting it to 100 MB does allow us to import the current 13th floor items table.

Enjoy!

I also want to thank both Cavedude and FatherNitWit for assisting me in identifying this issue and testing the solution. I believe you can expect PEQ to have a current items table in the next few days now.

[cavedude]

Here we are, a brand new items table consisting of the newest 13th floor dump as of this morning (62,000+ items) Stackable items work, and I made the appropriate changes to the columns so all the data got converted and merged in. I've been testing it all morning and had no issues (other than pre-existing ones in the Emu code of course) so it looks like we are good.

http://projecteq.net/items_102107.rar

As Wild said, Linux users will probably need to bump your /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax file a bit. Windows users need not do anything.