Gramofile

[jhoder at bu.edu]

hello,

i've been searching for a solution to the semaphore leak problem that causes 
gramofile to report "semget: no space left on device".  this has been 
reasonably well documented in web groups.  but first let me explain what i'm 
trying to do and maybe you have a suggestion:

i've been looking for a simple audio metering program for my freebsd 4.7 box.  
something that reads the line input from my soundcard and meters accordingly.  
i tried esound but haven't had much success.  gramofile, however, works fine 
until i get the semget error.  and i tried tweaking my kernel with sema 
modifications which seemed to help a little, but still got the error
eventually.

i would be very grateful if you could tell me how the gramofile software can be 
patched to use fewer semaphores.

if not, i'm curious if there's a way i could disable everything in gramofile 
*except* the metering?  i have no problem with record and playback on my 
machine, just looking for a metering solution.

any help you can offer regarding gramofile would be greatly appreciated.  
freebsd is the best os i've ever used.  kudos to all who've made it so.


thanks in advance,

john