Re: 64bit sysv ipc

2007-07-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 02:06:19PM -0600, Dan Gish wrote:
 Hi,
 We are working off the latest 6.2 amd64 snapshot.
 
 # uname -a
 FreeBSD anton 6.2-STABLE-200706 FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-200706 #0: Fri Jul
 20 13:17:02 MDT 2007
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/MYKERNEL  amd64
 
 The system has 8 gigs of memory.  We need to set a high SHMMAXPGS for
 Postgresql, and we're unable to set it above 2 gigs.  This message
 back in December mentions that someone needs to go over the sysv ipc
 code and make it 64-bit capable:
 
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-December/137633.html
 
 Does anyone have an update on this?  We are close to ditching FreeBSD
 in order to use Postgresql in a high memory configuration.

I think Mark was working on this.

Kris


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64bit sysv ipc

2007-07-20 Thread Dan Gish

Hi,
We are working off the latest 6.2 amd64 snapshot.

# uname -a
FreeBSD anton 6.2-STABLE-200706 FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-200706 #0: Fri Jul
20 13:17:02 MDT 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/MYKERNEL  amd64

The system has 8 gigs of memory.  We need to set a high SHMMAXPGS for
Postgresql, and we're unable to set it above 2 gigs.  This message
back in December mentions that someone needs to go over the sysv ipc
code and make it 64-bit capable:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-December/137633.html

Does anyone have an update on this?  We are close to ditching FreeBSD
in order to use Postgresql in a high memory configuration.

Best Regards,
Daniel
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