Re: [PERFORM] Postgresql on an AMD64 machine

[Vivek Khera]

On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Mark Rinaudo wrote:

I'm questioning the number of semaphores being used. In order for

curious if this is a bug in the amd64 postgresql port. Is anyone else
using postgresql on an AMD64  machine without similar issues?

postgresql to start I had to set the maximum number of semaphores system wide to 6000000. This seems to be an abnormal amount of semaphores. I'm

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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No such nonsense required for me under FreeBSD 5.4/amd64. I used the same settings I had under i386 OS. Postgres uses very few semaphores, from what I recall. My system shows 13 active semaphores.

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