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From Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
Subject SHMMAX value
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0106271245470.32402-100000@aluminum.cs.pitt.edu
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Responses Re: SHMMAX value  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
Re: SHMMAX value  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: SHMMAX value  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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This was asked repeatedly the past 2 weeks. With regard to "what is a sane value for shmmax in the kernel?" Oracle's
recommendationis to go for 0.5*physical_memory. So I gues that 0.25*physical_memory for Pg should be fine. 

cheers,
thalis

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