Re: SV: [INTERFACES] couldn't start postmaster - couldn't allocate sharedmemory

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SV: [INTERFACES] couldn't start postmaster - couldn't allocate sharedmemory
Date: 1999-02-23 20:45:05
Message-ID: 36D31351.49D8223B@rice.edu
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Tobias -
Any chance your out of semaphores? Try ipcs to see what's allocated,
then
the ipcclean script (in your lib/postgresql/bin dir) to clean them up.

Tobias Eriksson wrote:
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> > Från: James Thompson <jamest(at)math(dot)ksu(dot)edu>
> > Till: Tobias Eriksson <tobias(dot)eriksson(at)mbox311(dot)swipnet(dot)se>
> > Ämne: Re: [INTERFACES] couldn't start postmaster - couldn't allocate
> sharedmemory
> > Datum: den 22 februari 1999 23:04
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Tobias Eriksson wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > the command
> > > "postmaster ", well then it responded back that it could not allocate
> > > shared memory,
> >
> > I'm just guessing. Are you low on physical memory or swap space?
> >

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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005

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