Re: Limits to size of shared buffers?

Jeff,

You have to set your system to a little more than 2 GB because there are other
parameters which also require some shared memory. Just experiement with the
values a little and you'll see where the maximum is. If you have more than 2
GB or RAM and your system allows you to go over 2 GB, set it maybe to a max
of 2.5 GB and try to start up postgres again.

Best regards,
Chris

On Monday 19 August 2002 16:32, Jeff Boes wrote:
> Are there any limits to the size of the shared buffers parameter (as in,
> can Postgres go beyond a 2 GB size when I do something like
>
> shared_buffers = 262144 # uses 2 GB
>
> I had set my system shared memory to more than 2 GB, but couldn't get
> this line to work (Postgres returned an error when starting up). I
> backed down to
>
> shared_buffers = 196608 # uses 1.5 GB
>
> and everything was happy.

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Chris Ruprecht
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