Kurt Seel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Postmaster spits out this : > IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1236992, 03600) failed: Cannot > allocate memory If you try, say, -N 8 -B 16 does it start? I'm betting 1236992 bytes is larger than your kernel's limit on shared memory segment size. You can certainly raise that limit, but I don't know just how that's done on FreeBSD. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster