Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?
Date
Msg-id 17483.1021950563@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?  ("Command Prompt, Inc." <pgsql-general@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-general
Tree view 
"Command Prompt, Inc." <pgsql-general@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Does anyone have any experience in increasing the amount of shared memory
> buffers available to Mac OS X/Darwin?

A little bit of googling turns up Apple bug reports stating that OSX
has a hardwired limit on shared memory --- so no, short of modifying
and recompiling the kernel, you're outta luck.

            regards, tom lane

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Steve Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?
Next
From: Stephan Szabo
Date:
Subject: Re: Bug or feature?