Re: FreeBSD & Shared Memory

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Fork <mfork00(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Shared Memory
Date: 2004-06-12 17:25:53
Message-ID: 26418.1087061153@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Fork <mfork00(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> Here is the output of sysctl (which shows there is
> more shared mem available than postgres is asking for):

> bash-2.05b$ sysctl -a | grep shm
> kern.ipc.shmmax: 200000000
> kern.ipc.shmmin: 1
> kern.ipc.shmmni: 192
> kern.ipc.shmseg: 128
> kern.ipc.shmall: 8192
> kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 0

I forget exactly what units shmall is measured in, but I'm pretty sure
that 8192 isn't enough to allow 100MB of shared memory.

regards, tom lane

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