Re: New PG14 server won't start with >2GB shared_buffers

This is bare metal.

Thanks,

Chris Hoover

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> On Feb 24, 2023, at 21:19, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> Chris Hoover <chrish(at)aweber(dot)com> writes:
>> I have a new server that has 1TB ram (not a typo). I have been fighting with this evening to start up with a shared_buffer setting over 2GB. When the memory allocation breaks 2GB, the database won’t start. I’ve dropped it down to 500M to get the database online. We’ve tried both SysV memory and mmap memory.
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> Are you running inside a VM, or cgroup, or something else that might
> be imposing a memory limit?
>
> regards, tom lane