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Date:      Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:59:12 +0300
From:      Alexander Rusinov <boot@eurocom.od.ua>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PostgreSQL in FreeBSD jails
Message-ID:  <426E9D90.4030000@eurocom.od.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20050426135528.R32711@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <426E5713.3010906@eurocom.od.ua> <20050426110923.3edf8a2e.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20050426135528.R32711@ganymede.hub.org>

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Bill Moran wrote:
>
>> Alexander Rusinov <boot@eurocom.od.ua> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to run a number of PostgreSQL servers in different FreeBSD 
>>> jails.
>>> I managed to run a first instance of PostgreSQL server in a jail, but
>>> after I launch a new server in another jail the first one starts to
>>> return an error messages like the following:
>>>
>>> semctl(1507328, 4, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid argument
>>>
>>> The problem in general is: only one instance of PostgreSQL server
>>> processes clients' connections, all of the others return semctl errors.
>>
>>
>> I had this exact same problem.  I never found a solution.  The cause
>> appears to be that, since shared memory is not segregated between jails,
>> the newly launched Postgres instances corrupt the shared memory of
>> previously running Postgres instances.
>
>
> I'm running 9 jails on a server right now, each with their own instance:
> ....
> and never noticed any issues ... but, this is with 4.11, not 5.x, so 
> maybe something has changed?


Can you tell please what version of PostgreSQL are you running?



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