Set the following environment variables
DXSHMEM 0
DXMEMORY 128 (or whatever is appropriate for your machine)
dx -morehelp gives more info on these and other variables.
Jeff
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Michael Boyles wrote:
> This may be a simple question, but I just downloaded dx and am trying
> to start dx for the first time. It starts fine and then after
> following the tutorial, I try to open the visual program
> (example1.net) and get:
>
> Connection to server <my_machine_name> failed:
> Starting DX executive
> Error during initialization
> cannot get shared memory segment ...
> cannot initialize DX library
>
> After that, I can't go anywhere else in the tutorial because the
> EXECUTE->EXECUTE ONCE menu option is grayed out...
>
> I am running IRIX on an SGI Octane. Any suggestions? Am I missing
> something?
>
> Thanks,
> - Mike
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