Re: Buffers and MacOS X

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hunter Hillegas <lists(at)lastonepicked(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Buffers and MacOS X
Date: 2002-10-21 00:48:31
Message-ID: 15489.1035161311@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Hunter Hillegas <lists(at)lastonepicked(dot)com> writes:
> We are installing postgres on a MacOS X Server...
> On our Linux box, we had to muddle with some parameters to be able to
> increase the shared memory and buffers in postgres.
> Does anyone know how to do this in OS X? Or is it required?

In OS X 10.1, the max shared memory was a hardwired number that couldn't
be changed without recompiling the kernel --- and the standard setting
was none too darn large, either :-(. I dunno if Apple has improved
matters in 10.2.

regards, tom lane

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