Re: shmget problem on solaris

On Vie 07 Dic 2001 12:13, qradius(at)qnet(dot)com(dot)pe wrote:
> Dear Sirs:
>
> Please I have a problem at attempting to run postmaster on
> Solaris
>
> when I executed:
>
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> I get the follow error:
>
> This error can be caused by one of three things:
>
> 1. The maximum size for shared memory segments on your system
> was
> exceeded. You need to raise the SHMMAX parameter in your
> kernel
> to be at least 1245184 bytes.
>
> 2. The requested shared memory segment was too small for your
> system.
> You need to lower the SHMMIN parameter in your kernel.
>
> 3. The requested shared memory segment already exists but is
> of the
> wrong size. This is most likely the case if an old
> version of
> PostgreSQL crashed and didn't clean up. The `ipcclean'
> utility
> can be used to remedy this.
>
> I am running Soalris v SunOS 5.8 , what possible solutions
> exists?

You'll have to configure the shared memory parameters in /etc/system.

Check this:

http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?kernel-resources.html

Saludos... :-)

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