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Date:      Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:32:55 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Hal Lynch <hal@cc.usu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I increase shared memory in 4.7
Message-ID:  <3E937847.10807@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <B473E83A-6A15-11D7-8770-0050E490FD5B@cc.usu.edu>
References:  <B473E83A-6A15-11D7-8770-0050E490FD5B@cc.usu.edu>

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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



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