Re: Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4.1 (clarification) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4.1 (clarification)
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0011101707330.775-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4.1 (clarification)  (Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>)
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Philip Hallstrom writes:

>     I recently tried to start postmaster (7.0.2) with -B 128 -N 64 and
> got the "semget failed" error.  Looking in the faq[1] it says I need to
> increase the amount allowed in the kernel.  It tells me what I need to do,
> but my question is what values should I set them to?  Is there any way to
> figure it out based on load, etc?  Also, are there detrimental effects to
> setting them too high?

This may help:

http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/admin/kernel-resources.htm

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Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


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