Re: Changing the default configuration (was Re:

From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changing the default configuration (was Re:
Date: 2003-02-13 01:51:38
Message-ID: 58760000.1045101098@lerlaptop.lerctr.org
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--On Thursday, February 13, 2003 09:47:28 +0800 Christopher Kings-Lynne
<chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:

>> Seriously, I know Linux can change these on the fly, and I'm pretty sure
>> Solaris can too. I haven't played with BSD for a while so can't speak
>> about that. Anyone else know?
>
> You cannot change SHMMAX on the fly on FreeBSD.
Yes you can, on recent 4-STABLE:

Password:
lerlaptop# sysctl kern.ipc.shmmax=66000000
kern.ipc.shmmax: 33554432 -> 66000000
lerlaptop#uname -a
FreeBSD lerlaptop.lerctr.org 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #38: Mon Feb 3
21:51:25 CST 2003
ler(at)lerlaptop(dot)lerctr(dot)org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LERLAPTOP i386
lerlaptop#

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> Chris
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