Chris- This thread from Darwin might help you identify someone who is in the know about shared memory:
http://www.darwinfo.org/devlist.php3?number=1385 -Nick -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Fankhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone 1.765.935.4283 Fax 1.765.962.9788 Ray Ontko & Co. Software Consulting Services http://www.ontko.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Ruprecht > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:12 AM > To: Chad R. Larson > Cc: PostGreSQL Admin Group > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Increasing Shared Memory - on MacOS X > > > Hi Chad, > > good try, but there is unfortunately no parameter related to memory. > sysctl -a displays all of the parameters and their current settings, > nothing amongst them which looks like it's of help here. > > Thanks for the help, I guess, I have to see if I can talk to somebody > @ Apple or one of the darwin developer's groups. > > Best regards, > Chris > > At 21:19 -0700 01/25/2002, Chad R. Larson wrote: > >At 09:06 PM 1/24/02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >>Since OSX is basically BSD under the hood, I'd expect BSD-ish > >>solutions to be the place to look. Our notes about BSD systems say > >>that a kernel rebuild is the only way to alter SHMMAX on those > >>kernels :-( > > > > > >OS/X is FreeBSD, with a MACH kernel and Aqua as a window manager > >(pretty much). > > > >I don't know enough about tuning the MACH kernel, but on a pure > >FreeBSD system you can use "sysctl" to change the variable > >"kernel.ipc.shmmax" on the fly to whatever you think makes sense. > > > > > > -crl > >-- > >Chad R. Larson (CRL22) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Eldorado Computing, Inc. 602-604-3100 > > 5353 North 16th Street, Suite 400 > > Phoenix, Arizona 85016-3228 > > > -- > Chris Ruprecht > Network grunt and bit pusher extraordinaíre > _________________________________________________________ Do You > Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
