Re: [Mac OS X Mountain Lion] FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Mac OS X Mountain Lion] FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory
Date: 2012-10-07 17:41:00
Message-ID: 5071BEAC.6070708@hogranch.com
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On 10/07/12 6:30 AM, Yvon Thoraval wrote:
>
> What is the workaround ?

exactly what the error says to do, increase SHMMAX and SHMMAL in your
kernel configuration. on differnet unix-like systems you do this
differently (/etc/system on vintage Solaris, /etc/sysctl.conf on most
Linux distros, etc).

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john r pierce N 37, W 122
santa cruz ca mid-left coast

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