Re: FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory

Hi John

Yes that's the whole messege

# free -m

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8079 1770 6309 0 95 549
-/+ buffers/cache: 1125 6953
Swap: 1023 0 1023

Thanks

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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate
memory

On 4/23/2013 10:53 PM, Khangelani Gama wrote:
> We are running postgres 9.1 on CentOS 5. We can't start up postgres .
> It complains about memory allocation . Please help
>
> FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory
>

is that the entire error message? it usually says something about setting
kernel.shmmax and/or shmall... for most flavors of linux, you set these in
/etc/sysctl.conf (and then update the live system with "sysctl -p").

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