Re: shmget fails on OS X with proper settings

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: Christopher S Martin <martin(dot)christopher(dot)s(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Prashant Ranjalkar" <prashant(dot)ranjalkar(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: shmget fails on OS X with proper settings
Date: 2007-05-07 14:11:29
Message-ID: 5157.1178547089@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> I'm guessing the issue here is shmall, which I believe is limiting
> you to 4MB of shared memory. Is there *anything* using shared memory
> in the ipcs report?

Right, it looks like shmall is the problem. I believe BTW that you
need to do "sudo ipcs -a" to be sure of seeing everything; otherwise
OS X's ipcs silently doesn't tell you about segments your userid doesn't
have access to.

regards, tom lane

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