---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Markus Pscheidt <markus.psche...@gmail.com> Date: 2009/9/8 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Fail to start Postgres on Ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-15-generic To: Filip Rembiałkowski <plk.zu...@gmail.com>
> > quite a common problem... see > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/kernel-resources.html > > obvious question: what's in /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax ? > Thanks for your help. /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax was just a bit below the shared memory requested by Postgres. Increasing the kernel's maximum shared memory did the job by adding a line to /etc/sysctl.conf and thereby inreasing it to 100MB: kernel.shmmax = 104857600 Markus
