Re: settings for 8.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11

[Wolfgang Keller <wolfgang(dot)keller(dot)privat(at)gmx(dot)de>]

> The best thing is to fix the OS' ridiculously small shmem limits.
> I've got this in /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
> kern.sysv.shmmax=33554432
> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
> kern.sysv.shmall=8192

Dependency on the available RAM?

> and on a production DB you'd probably want shmmax and shmall
> a good bit higher.
>
> Don't forget to reboot after changing settings.  Also, a
> "sysctl -a | grep shm" is a good idea to make sure it "took";
> OS X is infamously picky about these settings.
>
> 			regards, tom lane

A Macnerd as a core developer of Postgres? :-)

Sincerely,

Wolfgang Keller