Default shared memory SGML mention

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Default shared memory SGML mention
Date: 2001-05-02 16:17:33
Message-ID: 200105021617.f42GHX811076@candle.pha.pa.us
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I am looking over the shared memory SGML files, and found that on my
BSD/OS system, I get as the following default shared memory size:

m 131072 5432001 --rw------- postgres user postgres
user 1 1236992 10622 10622 12:11:14 12:11:15 12:11:14

^^^^^^^

I have highlighted the size. If I subtract the default shared memory
buffers, I get:

1236992 - 8192 * 64

712704

so by my computations, we need about 700k added to the shared buffer
cache area. The documentation says to add 512k, not 700k. My guess is
that the non-cached shared memory area has increased in a recent
release, and docs were not updated. I will bump up the SGML mention to
700k unless someone shows a lower default shared memory size.

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