| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Christopher S Martin" <martin(dot)christopher(dot)s(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: shmget fails on OS X with proper settings |
| Date: | 2007-05-06 23:22:45 |
| Message-ID: | 17586.1178493765@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Christopher S Martin" <martin(dot)christopher(dot)s(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I was previous running postgres 8.2.1 on my OS X 10.4.9 laptop with no problems.
> After I sent it to apple care, I found that I can no longer start the
> postmaster daemon. When I try, I receive the standard shmget failed
> error message:
> FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory
> DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=4112384, 03600).
What are the *actual* sysv parameters, as shown by
sysctl -a | grep sysv.shm
? OS X is notoriously unfriendly about letting people change the values
it adopts at bootup ...
regards, tom lane
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