Notice: locking SHMFILE in core failed: Resource temporarily, unavailable

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Christer Solskogen <solskogen at carebears.mine.nu> writes:
> I'm getting this notice whenever I (re)start varnish on FreeBSD 7.2
> (amd64). Varnish runs and works as I would expect, so is it harmless?

Yes, it's harmless (though it may have an impact on performance if
you're running a log consumer).  The cause is the same as for the GPG
"insecure memory" warning:

http://maycontaintracesofbolts.blogspot.com/2009/06/gpg-insecure-memory.html

Somebody[tm] should document this Somewhere[tm].

DES
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