Re: BUG #17938: could not open shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.615216676": No such file or directory

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz
Cc: onkobu(at)onkobutanaake(dot)de, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #17938: could not open shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.615216676": No such file or directory
Date: 2023-05-24 01:09:51
Message-ID: 20230524.100951.1995911263879377795.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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At Wed, 24 May 2023 09:57:35 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> dynamic_shared_memory_type. Outside of Windows, it first prefers
> posix, then sysv and finally mmap. Thus it is quite usual to use posix
> for DSM segments. Actually posix is defaultly used for

It is written in the documentation.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/runtime-config-resource.html#GUC-DYNAMIC-SHARED-MEMORY-TYPE

> The use of the mmap option, which is not the default on any
> platform, is generally discouraged because the operating system may
> write modified pages back to disk repeatedly, increasing system I/O
> load; however, it may be useful for debugging, when the pg_dynshmem
> directory is stored on a RAM disk, or when other shared memory
> facilities are not available.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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