Re: Buffers and MacOS X

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

I was going to point him to the development docs, but I see no mention
of OSX shared kernel limit tuning in there at all. Can someone submit
info to beef it up for OSX?

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