"Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" <thalis@cs.pitt.edu> writes:
> Another minor issue that has come to my attention is that when I define
> shared_buffers=40000
> I assume that it'll need a shm segment of 40000*8192=327680000 bytes
> And so I set /proc/sys/kernel/shmall and shmmax accordingly only to find out that postmaster failes to start because
itrequests a shmsegment of 336404480 bytes. Where is the fallacy in my math?
Shared buffers are not the only things we keep in shared memory ...
regards, tom lane
