Re: [GENERAL] Problems setting shared_buffers to large value

2004-04-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Barry L. Geipel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I set shared_buffers to a value which puts the total shared memory > usage over 1GB, my postgres server fails to start. You definitely can't set shared memory to more than 2GB because its allocation arithmetic is done with ints. Not sure why it

Re: [GENERAL] Problems setting shared_buffers to large value

2004-04-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, What operating system? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Barry L. Geipel wrote: --> Hi all,   I am running postgres 7.4.2 on a Dual processor Opteron with 16GB of ram. I want to set shared_buffers to a large value, but I am running into startup problems.   I have set my