Marcelo Costa wrote: > Hi, to all! > > Recently i try increasing the memory values of shared buffers on one > IBM xseries 255 (Quad XEON 2.8, 8 GB RAM, 2 disk SCSI 36 GB(Raid 1), 1 > Storage.
You haven't specified your OS so I am going to assume Linux. > Where I start up the cluster very messages of configurations errors on > shared_memmory and SHMMAX look up. I try change the values of > shared_memory, max_connections and effective_cache_size and large the > size of SHMALL and SHMMAX to use 4294967296 (4096 MB) but the cluster > don't start. You have to edit your sysctl.conf see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/runtime.html I *think* (I would have to double check) the limit for shared memory on linux 32bit is 2 gig. Possibly 2 gig per CPU I don't recall. I run all 64bit now. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
