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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: shmget fails on OS X with proper settings
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Msg-id 17586.1178493765@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to shmget fails on OS X with proper settings  ("Christopher S Martin" <martin.christopher.s@gmail.com>)
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"Christopher S Martin" <martin.christopher.s@gmail.com> writes:
> I was previous running postgres 8.2.1 on my OS X 10.4.9 laptop with no problems.
> After I sent it to apple care, I found that I can no longer start the
> postmaster daemon.   When I try, I receive the standard shmget failed
> error message:

> FATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory
> DETAIL:  Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=4112384, 03600).

What are the *actual* sysv parameters, as shown by

sysctl -a | grep sysv.shm

?  OS X is notoriously unfriendly about letting people change the values
it adopts at bootup ...

            regards, tom lane

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