Re: Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4.1 (clarification)

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Philip Hallstrom <philip(at)adhesivemedia(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4.1 (clarification)
Date: 2000-11-10 16:08:19
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0011101707330.775-100000@peter.localdomain
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Philip Hallstrom writes:

> I recently tried to start postmaster (7.0.2) with -B 128 -N 64 and
> got the "semget failed" error. Looking in the faq[1] it says I need to
> increase the amount allowed in the kernel. It tells me what I need to do,
> but my question is what values should I set them to? Is there any way to
> figure it out based on load, etc? Also, are there detrimental effects to
> setting them too high?

This may help:

http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/admin/kernel-resources.htm

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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