See here for info that will probably help you:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913409 The MS knowledge base is quite a good resource for answers to problems like this. Please also note that this is absoutely the wrong list for asking such questions - this list is *only* for posting patches and discussion of such posted patches. cheers andrew Takayuki Tsunakawa wrote: > Hello, > > Could anyone tell me how to use 2GB of shared buffers on Windows? I'm > sorry for attaching large text files and for sending this mail to this > ML. > When I try to start PostgreSQL 8.2.1 on Windows 2003 Server with > shared_buffers=1024MB, I get the following error messages in the Event > Log (with log_min_messages=debug5) and can't start PostgreSQL: > > DEBUG: mapped win32 error code 8 to 12 > > FATAL: shmat(id=1880) failed: Not enough space > > > This means the Win32 API MapViewOfFile() failed with error code = > ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY. However, the machine has 4GB of RAM and the > maximum size of paging file is 8GB. > > But I could start PostgreSQL with shared_buffers=900MB. Then, I > peeked the memory map of postgres. The attached files are the memory > usage of postgres obtained by vadump. which is a tool included in > Microsoft Resource Kit (vadump is downloadable freely.) > (I'm using packaged PostgreSQL 8.2.1 available from > www.postgresql.org.) > > -------------------------------------------------- > Symbols loaded: 10000000 : 10107000 libeay32.dll > Symbols loaded: 1c000000 : 1c006000 comerr32.dll > Symbols loaded: 5ba20000 : 5ba77000 hnetcfg.dll > Symbols loaded: 61770000 : 61779000 LPK.DLL > -------------------------------------------------- > > These modules appear to be criminals. They are spliting the address > space of postgres and preventing postgres from allocating a large > shared memory. They seem to be the open source libraries (but what is > hnetcfg.dll?) > Why are they located on strange (evil) places? What can I do? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: 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
