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From:	"Thalis A(dot) Kalfigopoulos" <thalis(at)cs(dot)pitt(dot)edu>
To:	pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject:	SHMMAX value
Date:	2001-06-27 16:47:44
Message-ID:	Pine.LNX.4.21.0106271245470.32402-100000@aluminum.cs.pitt.edu
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This was asked repeatedly the past 2 weeks. With regard to "what is a sane value for shmmax in the kernel?" Oracle's recommendation is to go for 0.5*physical_memory. So I gues that 0.25*physical_memory for Pg should be fine.

cheers,
thalis

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Re: SHMMAX value at 2001-06-27 17:26:05 from Lamar Owen
Re: SHMMAX value at 2001-06-27 17:41:17 from Peter Eisentraut
Re: SHMMAX value at 2001-06-27 17:52:40 from Bruce Momjian

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