Re: OSX 10.3.7 broke Postgresql 8.0.0b5?

On Dec 17, 2004, at 11:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Fascinating. As far as I can tell on my machine, 10.3.7 did not change
> the kernel IPC limits. So if it's not working for you guys that would
> suggest that 10.3.7 added some new background usage of IPC resources,
> which in combination with the PG postmaster exceeds the
> same-as-it-ever-
> was kernel limit.
>
> If ipcs worked then we'd have some chance of investigating this, but OS
> X doesn't provide ipcs. (Thank you Apple ... not)
>
> FWIW, my installation of PG on OS X defaults to
> max_connections = 50
> shared_buffers = 300
> because values higher than that exceed the default kernel limits.
>
> It looks like yours has 100/1000 --- did you hand-modify that? Or
> maybe
> you hand-modified the kernel limits? Another possible explanation is
> that the 10.3.7 update overwrote any local changes you'd made to the
> IPC
> limits.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

I dropped the shared_buffers from 300 (the number determined by initdb)
to 200 and I am now able to start the server.

Tim