On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> when I start cinelerra, I always get the following message:
> 
> -----------
> void MWindow::init_shm(): Warning: /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax is 0x7ffffff, 
> which 
> is too low.
> Before running Cinelerra do the following as root:
> echo "0x7fffffff" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> -----------------------
> 
> So far so well, but "/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax" is not existent.
> What is this command for? I guess it allocates more ram.

Do you have /proc, and is there anything in it?

If not, make sure you have this in your /etc/fstab:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

And then run "mount /proc"


Kurt


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