Re: Shared Memory/Shared Buffers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Shared Memory/Shared Buffers
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Msg-id 2439.1106928585@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Shared Memory/Shared Buffers  (Alex Turner <armtuk@gmail.com>)
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Alex Turner <armtuk@gmail.com> writes:
> I have noticed that I can't set the shared buffers above 15512 which
> is exactly 128MB of RAM.  Even if I set /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax above
> that, postgres refuses to start with a setting over 128MB.

Check your shmall setting, too.

            regards, tom lane

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