Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> writes:
> On 16-Nov-06, at 7:03 PM, Brian Wipf wrote:
>> Has anyone else noticed this limitation on OS X? Any ideas on how I
>> might get shared_buffers higher than 284263?
> My guess is something else has taken shared memory ahead of you. OS X
> seems to be somewhat strange in how it deals with shared memory. Try
> allocating more to shmmax ?
Look in "ipcs -m -a" output to check this theory. (I am glad to see
that ipcs and ipcrm are finally there in recent OS X releases --- awhile
back they were not, leaving people to fly entirely blind while dealing
with issues like this :-()
regards, tom lane