> We have an SGI onyx2  with 6 Gb of memory and I have been
> running dx with the command dx -memory 1028
> with no problem until my datasets got bigger ...
> DX told me that I ran out of memory.

> cannot attach shared memory segment / failed on segment 7
> 0f -7 needed segments/ last call to shmat
> returned errno=12
> cannot initialize DX library

In the past, I have had problems with DX and shared memory on our SGI (old
Indigo).  Disabling shared memory using setenv DXSHMEM -1 did the trick.  So
you might give that a try....

Good luck!
  Jeremy Zoss
  Southwest Research Institute

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