Are these different from what is already in our docs?
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Martin Foster wrote:
> Chris Palmer wrote:
> > Martin Foster writes:
> >
> >
> >>However are the above numbers realistic? This would require some
> >>fairly customized kernels for OpenBSD to allow for numbers
> >>that high as well?
> >
> >
> > What kernel parameter would need to be changed besides BUFCACHEPERCENT
> > (which defaults to 5%)? That's one small customization.
> >
> >
>
> # PostGRE SQL specific
> options SYSVSHM
> options SHMMAXPGS=4096
> options SHMSEG=256
>
> options SYSVSEM
> options SEMMNI=512
> options SEMMNS=1024
> options SEMMNU=512
> options SEMMAP=512
>
> All of these options are required in order to start raising the values
> of shared_buffers and most probably sort_mem. Seems that PostgreSQL
> uses Posix extensions which are not very well represented in most BSD
> kernels.
>
> As a result, you need to manually raise the values above in order to get
> higher values. If memory serves, the above was necessary to have 256
> connections with 512 shared_buffers.
>
> Martin Foster
> Creator/Designer Ethereal Realms
> martin@ethereal-realms.org
>
>
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