Re: semctl(): Invalid argument

It looks like moving to FreeBSD 6.x for some of our servers is biting me
in the butt ... they "broke" something with semaphores that used to work
with 4.x, so that you can't run two postmasters on port 5432 within two
seperate jails ... :(

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> What would cause the following?
>
> # psql -U pgsql -l
> psql: FATAL: semctl(327686, 3, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid argument
>
> The server is FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE ... there are two jails running on it
> ... both jails are running PostgreSQL 7.4 ... I have the kernel built with
> enough semaphores:
>
> options SYSVSHM
> options SHMMAXPGS=199608
> options SHMMAX=(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)
>
> options SYSVSEM
> options SEMMNI=4096
> options SEMMNS=8192
>
> options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
>
> And am definitely not using that many:
>
> (from ipcs -a):
> ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP
> NSEMS OTIME CTIME s 393216 5432001 --rw------- 70
> 70 70 70 17 13:46:07 13:46:07
> s 393217 5432002 --rw------- 70 70 70 70
> 17 13:46:07 13:46:07
> s 393218 5432003 --rw------- 70 70 70 70
> 17 13:46:07 13:46:07
> s 393219 5432004 --rw------- 70 70 70 70
> 17 13:46:07 13:46:07
> s 393220 5432005 --rw------- 70 70 70 70
> 17 13:46:07 13:46:07
> s 393221 5432006 --rw------- 70 70 70 70
> 17 13:46:07 13:46:07
> s 393222 5432007 --rw------- 70 70 70 70
> 17 13:46:07 13:46:07
>
> So figure there must be something else that I should be looking at ...
>
> Thanks ...
>
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