From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 20 20:32:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FC216A41A for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:32:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@schoolfusion.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B6313C47E for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:32:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@schoolfusion.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so1183046waf for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.58.1 with SMTP id l1mr784936wak.1184961979389; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.52.5 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:06:19 -0600 From: "Dan Gish" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: 64bit sysv ipc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:32:02 -0000 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 root@anton:/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