Re: Can't start Pgsql 7.1 on FreeBSD 4.2

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kurt Seel <kseel(at)utcorp(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can't start Pgsql 7.1 on FreeBSD 4.2
Date: 2001-04-26 22:26:25
Message-ID: 25717.988323985@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Kurt Seel <kseel(at)utcorp(dot)com> writes:
> Postmaster spits out this :
> IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1236992, 03600) failed: Cannot
> allocate memory

If you try, say, -N 8 -B 16 does it start?

I'm betting 1236992 bytes is larger than your kernel's limit on shared
memory segment size. You can certainly raise that limit, but I don't
know just how that's done on FreeBSD.

regards, tom lane

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