Re: Changing SHMMAX - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Florian Weimer
Subject Re: Changing SHMMAX
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Msg-id 82sjw6v9ha.fsf@mid.bfk.de
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In response to Changing SHMMAX  (Adarsh Sharma <adarsh.sharma@orkash.com>)
Responses Re: Changing SHMMAX  (Torsten Zühlsdorff <foo@meisterderspiele.de>)
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* Adarsh Sharma:

> Please guide  me how to change it  permanently and what is the correct
> value for it.
> I am going for 8GB .

Usually, you can put these lines

kernel.shmall = 9000000000
kernel.shmmax = 9000000000

into /etc/sysctl.conf.  Run "sysctl -p" to activate them.  However,
this is a bit distribution-specific.

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