>In order to take advantage of some new hardware I had to use Linux over
>FreeBSD.. I use to run my backend with the options -B 4096 -o '-S 16384' but
>remember I had to modify the FreeBSD kernel to allow processes to use that
>much shared memory... How would I go about doing that in Linux? I've been
> of the Linux loop for some time (obviously) -- Thanks!
I use:
echo "100000000" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
in my postgresql init script.
Check the number and the existence of shmmax file
in your system (it's there since Linux 2.2.0, I believe).
Regards
Hernan Gonzalez
