Re: [GENERAL] memory

At 05:11 PM 11/29/99 +1200, John Henderson wrote:

<snippage>

>Here are the questions...
>
>1) Can someone explain how postgreSQL uses memory so that I can understand
>what I should be doing here.
>BTW, I am running postgres with -B 884. Can someone also explain how
>postgres uses shared mem so that I can have a clue what would be a
>reasonable setting.
>
>2) Can any BSDI folk give me any tuning tips. I am especially interested to
>hear from those who claim "some might tell you that we run equally well on
>FreeBSD" or "BSD is the One True Code", of course all help is gratefully
>received.
>
>Thanks,
>John Henderson

The FreeBSD port of postgres stipulates that you must compile kernel with
options SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, & SYSVMSG. Don't know jack about BSDI or your
kernel config, but this might be something worth investigating.

Ciao--Ken
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