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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Gavin Kistner <phrogz@mac.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Fresh build on OS X not working (memory)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:11:06 -0400
Message-ID: <17625.1272665466@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16976.1272663334@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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I wrote:
> ... OTOH I'd have expected you to have to reboot multiple
> times while experimenting with the shm parameters, so I'm not entirely
> convinced I've hit on the right explanation.

Oh ... were you using sysctl -w rather than rebooting to adjust the
shmmem parameters?  I realized after experimenting that 10.6 lets you
do that.  It didn't use to be possible to change these parameters in
OS X without rebooting --- I wonder when they fixed that.

			regards, tom lane



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