Re: settings for 8.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11

On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:12 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:

>> The best thing is to fix the OS' ridiculously small shmem limits.
>> I've got this in /etc/sysctl.conf:
>>
>> kern.sysv.shmmax=33554432
>> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
>> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
>> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
>> kern.sysv.shmall=8192
>
> Dependency on the available RAM?
>
>> and on a production DB you'd probably want shmmax and shmall
>> a good bit higher.
>>
>> Don't forget to reboot after changing settings. Also, a
>> "sysctl -a | grep shm" is a good idea to make sure it "took";
>> OS X is infamously picky about these settings.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>
> A Macnerd as a core developer of Postgres? :-)

Not surprising. Macs are an absolute joy for developing.

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