Re: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation

2006-03-03 Thread Chris Campbell
On Mar 2, 2006, at 15:32, Bruce Momjian wrote: It seems you are saying that shmmax and shmall must be multiples of 4k, and I added that to the docs. It previously only mentioned shmmax in that regard. That was a typo in my comment before the code (the nutshell descriptions after the code

Re: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation

2006-03-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Patch applied. Thanks. Your documentation changes can be viewed in five minutes using links on the developer's page, http://www.postgresql.org/developer/testing. --- Chris Campbell wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 15:32,

Re: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation

2006-03-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
Great. I have applied the following documentation patch for CVS HEAD and 8.1.X. It seems you are saying that shmmax and shmall must be multiples of 4k, and I added that to the docs. It previously only mentioned shmmax in that regard.

Re: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation

2006-02-23 Thread Neil Conway
Jim C. Nasby wrote: Outstanding writeup! Mind if I post it in our knowledgebase at http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/instantkb13/? (Unless someone has a better idea of where this could go...) Some of this information should be added to the documentation on how to configure the shared memory

Re: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation

2006-02-22 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Outstanding writeup! Mind if I post it in our knowledgebase at http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/instantkb13/? (Unless someone has a better idea of where this could go...) On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:33:27PM -0500, Chris Campbell wrote: The definitive answer can be found in the source code for the

Re: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation

2006-02-12 Thread Chris Campbell
The definitive answer can be found in the source code for the Darwin kernel, xnu (links are below): 1. The shmmax, shmmin, shmmni, shmseg, and shmall settings cannot be changed after the shared memory system is initialized 2. The shared memory system is initialized immediately after all 5

Re: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Luke Lonergan
Thanks for this Jim! We'll test it and report results. - Luke From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jim C. Nasby Sent: Sat 2/11/2006 9:26 PM To: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org Subject: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation I finally figured out what the

Re: [PATCHES] OS X shared memory documentation

2006-02-11 Thread Tom Lane
Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +In OS X 10.3 and later, you can simply place the settings into +filename/etc/sysctl.conf/, with one caveat: all five of these +parameters are linked together, so you must specify all five in +filename/etc/sysctl.conf/. If