Re: shared memory settings on MAC OS X

Hi again,

Tom, I suspect you have Mac OS X Server installed, right? That's probably
why your /etc/sysctl.conf file mentions that /etc/sysctl-macosxserver.conf
file, while mine doesn't.

The critical part in my /etc/sysctl.conf file looks like this:

if [ -f /etc/sysctl.conf ]; then
awk '{ if (!index($1, "#") && index($1, "=")) print $1 }' <
/etc/sysctl.conf | while read
do
sysctl -w ${REPLY}
done
fi

sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=4194304 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32
kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=1024

And frankly, to me it looks as if it means "if there is a /etc/sysctl.conf
file, then read it and accept its settings. Then overwrite the sysctl
settings with the default values, no matter what."

I know that my understanding is wrong though, because I tried changing the
settings on my local machine via the /etc/sysctl.conf file, and it worked.
But not on the machine that's supposed to be our pg server.

> As a debugging measure, see what happens if you change that last
> sysctl line in /etc/rc.

Okay, I will try that.

Thanks,

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