Thank you John and Steve: So, as I read it, 32 MB is OK functionally, although 14 MB is the new “normal” for shared memory as far as WSJT X is concerned.
One of the other things I also noticed, just after going to Mojave, was that the boot-up and log-in times are VERY slow, and opening apps is much slower than before, as well. Although the late 2014 Mini does have 4 GB of ram, it is tempting to imagine that this new system start-up problem may be due to the enlarged 32MB shared memory. If so, that may be at the root of both the super slowness in activating apps, and the problem I’m seeing with WSJT X 2.0. Some time ago, when I set up the Mini for 1.9 (maybe earlier), I did set to 32 MB per John notes at the time. (It was necessary at that time, and then all ran well.) I’ll have to see if I can recall the steps to move the allocation down to 14 MB. 73, Jim K6MIO/KH6 > On Dec 22, 2018, at 11:09 AM, John Nelson <j...@rmnjmn.co.uk> wrote: > > With regard to the change in shmmax that has been commented on, I reduced the > size of the shared memory segment from 32 MB to a value (14MB) more in > keeping with the size of the arrays which are shared between wsjtx and the > decoders. This reduction will have no effect whatever on the operation of > WSJT-X. > > Computers these days tend to have main memory in the region of many > gigabytes. Reserving 32MB of this amount instead of 14MB is of no > consequence and should not be a source of concern to users of Macs running > any version of macOS. > > — John G4KLA > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > On Dec 22, 2018, at 7:45 AM, Steve Huston <hus...@srhuston.net> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > I have the same model Mini, and the same OS upgrade caused issues. I > also noticed that the values from the sysctl.conf were different than > what is recommended; the shmall value was 8192 as in yours, and the > shmmax 33554432 even though the recommended is lower than that (and > the default listed in the ReadMe file seems to indicate the standard > default is much lower than both what we have set and what should be > set). My problem though isn't that the application stops working, but > that it doesn't work fast enough - decodes work well, but it's as if > the thread responsible for transmitting is anywhere from 1-3s behind > everything else so transmissions don't start or end on time. > Unfortunately I know very little about profiling, and less than that > on profiling on Mac OS, to be able to help find out what's taking it > so long - though I'm willing to run profilers and provide the data if > someone can tell me what they need. > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 3:11 PM Jim Kennedy <jimkenn...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote: >> >> Aloha David: >> >> Ooops, that was just a key stroke error on my part. It really is 8192. >> >> I copy/pasted everything, except the last line (by accident), noticed the >> omission, and then keyed in the remainder, with the last two numbers >> reversed. >> >> Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for finding my error. >> >> 73, >> >> Jim >> K6MIO >> >> >> >>> On Dec 21, 2018, at 6:22 AM, David Tiller <dtil...@captechconsulting.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> My values are exactly the same as yours except for that last one, so if the >>> config tests don't solve your issue you might give changing that to 8192 a >>> shot. >>> >>>> On Dec 20, 2018, at 23:01, David Tiller <dtil...@captechconsulting.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> kern.sysv.shmall: 8129 >>>> >>>> For what it's worth, that value looks like a typo - it probably ought to >>>> be 8192, a power of 2. >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Dec 20, 2018, at 20:13, Jim Kennedy <jimkenn...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> kern.sysv.shmall: 8129 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> wsjt-devel mailing list >>>> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> wsjt-devel mailing list >>> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wsjt-devel mailing list >> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > > > -- > > Steve Huston - W2SRH - Unix Sysadmin, PICSciE/CSES & Astrophysical Sci > Princeton University | ICBM Address: 40.346344 -74.652242 > 345 Lewis Library |"On my ship, the Rocinante, wheeling through > Princeton, NJ 08544 | the galaxies; headed for the heart of Cygnus, > (267) 793-0852 | headlong into mystery." -Rush, 'Cygnus X-1' > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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