Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:35:51 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPC Sys5 for amd64? Message-ID: <49AD3237.2050208@denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <gojbcc$4es$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20090302220729.GN14832@boiteameuh.org> <gojbcc$4es$1@ger.gmane.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030807090200050901030902 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ivan Voras wrote: > nicolas@boiteameuh.org wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to install a PostgreSQL db on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE amd64. >> It's seems I can't allocate a shared memory segment more than 2GB. >> I tune sysctl ipc.shm* values but without effects. >> >> IPC Sys5 isn't "64bit-aware" or the problem is elsewhere? >> > > Yes, SYSVSHM is limited to 2 GB in 7.1. It has recently been extended in > -CURRENT, it will probably be MFC-ed to 7-STABLE (7.2) soon. > Aha! Well, that makes sense :) I was wondering why I could tune up the sysctls but the call to allocate still failed :) For those of us who have complex dbms installations that would be VERY useful, as RAM is cheap nowdays. -- -- Karl Denninger karl@denninger.net --------------030807090200050901030902--
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