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From Paul Taylor
Subject Re: Tuning Postgres for single user manipulating large amounts of data
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Msg-id 4D011386.6060201@fastmail.fm
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In response to Re: Tuning Postgres for single user manipulating large amounts of data  (Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com>)
Responses Re: Tuning Postgres for single user manipulating large amounts of data  (Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@ateb.com>)
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On 09/12/2010 15:12, Reid Thompson wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 09:59 AM, Andy Colson wrote:
>> On 12/9/2010 8:50 AM, Andy Colson wrote:
>>> On 12/9/2010 6:25 AM, Paul Taylor wrote:
>>> You need to bump up your SHMMAX is your OS.
>> sorry: SHMMAX _in_ your OS.
>>
>> its an OS setting not a PG one.
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>>
> scroll down to the section on OSX
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/kernel-resources.html
>
Thanks guys, but one think I dont get is why does setting shared_buffers
to 40mb break the kernel limit, I mean 40 mb doesnt sound like very much
at all

Paul

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