Re: Can't start Pgsql 7.1 on FreeBSD 4.2 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Kurt Seel <kseel@utcorp.com> writes:
>  Postmaster spits out this :
> IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1236992, 03600) failed: Cannot
> allocate memory

If you try, say, -N 8 -B 16 does it start?

I'm betting 1236992 bytes is larger than your kernel's limit on shared
memory segment size.  You can certainly raise that limit, but I don't
know just how that's done on FreeBSD.

            regards, tom lane