From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 18:11:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF4337B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6116443F93 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h391BYJP013372; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 21:11:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E937847.10807@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:32:55 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hal Lynch References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I increase shared memory in 4.7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 01:11:38 -0000 Hal Lynch wrote: > I am running postgres on my 4.7 system and I need more > shared buffer space. If I set the # of shared buffers in > postgres to what I want it won't start because I need more > shared buffers than are available from the system. > > I have tried raising kern.ipc.shmmax from 160000000 to > 256000000 using sysctl but it doesn't seem to make a > difference. > > Can anyone help? Not sure, but I believe you can set values in your kernel config and recompile your kernel. See /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for details. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com