Re: FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Khangelani Gama
Subject Re: FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory
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In response to Re: FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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Hi  John

Yes that's the whole messege

# free -m

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          8079       1770       6309          0         95        549
-/+ buffers/cache:       1125       6953
Swap:         1023          0       1023


Thanks


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[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:58 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate
memory

On 4/23/2013 10:53 PM, Khangelani Gama wrote:
> We are running postgres 9.1 on CentOS 5. We can't start up postgres .
> It complains about memory allocation . Please help
>
> FATAL:  shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory
>

is that the entire error message?  it usually says something about setting
kernel.shmmax and/or shmall... for most flavors of linux, you set these in
/etc/sysctl.conf  (and then update the live system with "sysctl -p").



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