I trapped into this issue and ask help on: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user.russian/122511
where pointed to: http://askubuntu.com/questions/692825/how-to-fix-graphical-issues-with-skype-gdk-warning where found: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-7/+bug/1512760 So on my host I do: $ ipcs -m -l ------ Shared Memory Limits -------- max number of segments = 4096 <====== THIS max seg size (kbytes) = 18014398509465599 max total shared memory (kbytes) = 18014398442373116 min seg size (bytes) = 1 $ ipcs -m -u ------ Shared Memory Status -------- segments allocated 4096 <=== LIMIT EXCEEDED pages allocated 1118115 <== about 4 GiB pages resident 14194 pages swapped 71 Swap performance: 0 attempts 0 successes I see that some process have a lot of occurrence: $ ipcs -m -p and search for it: $ ps -e | grep $PID This was NemBeans on Java 7u85-2.6.1-5. This help: [UPGRADE] openjdk-7-jdk:amd64 7u85-2.6.1-5 -> 7u91-2.6.3-1 -- Best regards!