Re: Why PostgreSQL doesn't start with shared_buffers=6GB ?

2012-11-06 Thread Shane Ambler
On 05/11/2012 11:24, Yuri wrote: When I am setting shared_buffers=6GB in postgresql.conf it fails to start: DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=6612361216, 03600). even though kern.ipc.shmmax is set to ~7GB: $ sysctl -a | grep shm kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed: 0

Re: Why PostgreSQL doesn't start with shared_buffers=6GB ?

2012-11-05 Thread Frank Broniewski
Hi, I'm running Postgresql 9.1 on FreeBSD 9.0 with the following settings: # postgresql.conf shared_buffers = 8GB # pgtune wizard 2012-04-04 # /boot/loader.conf kern.ipc.semmni=256 kern.ipc.semmns=512 kern.ipc.semmnu=256 kern.ipc.semumr=200 vm.pmap.shpgperproc=400 vm.pmap.pv_entry_max=50331648