Re: Changing SHMMAX

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de>
To: Adarsh Sharma <adarsh(dot)sharma(at)orkash(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Changing SHMMAX
Date: 2011-02-02 13:42:25
Message-ID: 82sjw6v9ha.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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* Adarsh Sharma:

> Please guide me how to change it permanently and what is the correct
> value for it.
> I am going for 8GB .

Usually, you can put these lines

kernel.shmall = 9000000000
kernel.shmmax = 9000000000

into /etc/sysctl.conf. Run "sysctl -p" to activate them. However,
this is a bit distribution-specific.

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