Re: xBSD shmem doc deficiency

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: xBSD shmem doc deficiency
Date: 2002-11-21 18:20:17
Message-ID: 200211211820.gALIKHd08312@candle.pha.pa.us
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Neil Conway wrote:
> (c) the 'prevent shared memory paging' sysctl vaguely referred
> to in the docs is 'kern.ipc.shm_use_phys', right?

I have added a mention of this to the 7.4 docs:

You might also want to use the <application>sysctl</> setting to
lock shared memory into RAM and prevent it from being paged out
to swap, e.g. <literal>kern.ipc.shm_use_phys</>.

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