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* remove shmmax example in Linux section
@ 2017-07-21 10:18 gorka.gil@openbravo.com
  2017-07-31 18:32 ` Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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From: gorka.gil@openbravo.com @ 2017-07-21 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-docs

The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/kernel-resources.html
Description:

Hi,

I&#39;m refer to this document:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/kernel-resources.html

In &quot;Linux&quot; section, show an example of setting shmmax to 16GB, when this
change is not needed from pg 9.3.

Maybe just remove to avoid confusion?
Maybe also shmall also not needed ?


Regards,
Gorka

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* Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section
  2017-07-21 10:18 remove shmmax example in Linux section gorka.gil@openbravo.com
@ 2017-07-31 18:32 ` Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
  2017-07-31 18:48   ` Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread

From: Peter Eisentraut @ 2017-07-31 18:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gorka.gil@openbravo.com; pgsql-docs

On 7/21/17 06:18, gorka.gil@openbravo.com wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/kernel-resources.html
> Description:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I&#39;m refer to this document:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/kernel-resources.html
> 
> In &quot;Linux&quot; section, show an example of setting shmmax to 16GB, when this
> change is not needed from pg 9.3.
> 
> Maybe just remove to avoid confusion?
> Maybe also shmall also not needed ?

It's still needed in some cases, so I don't see why we can't have an
example.

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* Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section
  2017-07-21 10:18 remove shmmax example in Linux section gorka.gil@openbravo.com
  2017-07-31 18:32 ` Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
@ 2017-07-31 18:48   ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  2017-07-31 18:58     ` Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread

From: Tom Lane @ 2017-07-31 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>; +Cc: gorka.gil@openbravo.com; pgsql-docs

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 7/21/17 06:18, gorka.gil@openbravo.com wrote:
>> In &quot;Linux&quot; section, show an example of setting shmmax to 16GB, when this
>> change is not needed from pg 9.3.
>> 
>> Maybe just remove to avoid confusion?
>> Maybe also shmall also not needed ?

> It's still needed in some cases, so I don't see why we can't have an
> example.

I wonder whether it'd make sense to recast those examples as increasing
semaphore-related settings, as that's much more likely to be needed these
days.  I had to boost the SEMMNI setting on my workstation just last week.
(Admittedly, I had something like a dozen postmasters going, but still,
that was an actual change I had to make.)  It'd be particularly valuable
to document this for Linux, with its opaque "kernel.sem" API for the
semaphore limits.

			regards, tom lane


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* Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section
  2017-07-21 10:18 remove shmmax example in Linux section gorka.gil@openbravo.com
  2017-07-31 18:32 ` Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
  2017-07-31 18:48   ` Re: remove shmmax example in Linux section Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
@ 2017-07-31 18:58     ` Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
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From: Scott Marlowe @ 2017-07-31 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>; +Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>; pgsql-docs

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> On 7/21/17 06:18, gorka.gil@openbravo.com wrote:
>>> In &quot;Linux&quot; section, show an example of setting shmmax to 16GB, when this
>>> change is not needed from pg 9.3.
>>>
>>> Maybe just remove to avoid confusion?
>>> Maybe also shmall also not needed ?
>
>> It's still needed in some cases, so I don't see why we can't have an
>> example.
>
> I wonder whether it'd make sense to recast those examples as increasing
> semaphore-related settings, as that's much more likely to be needed these
> days.  I had to boost the SEMMNI setting on my workstation just last week.
> (Admittedly, I had something like a dozen postmasters going, but still,
> that was an actual change I had to make.)  It'd be particularly valuable
> to document this for Linux, with its opaque "kernel.sem" API for the
> semaphore limits.

Agreed. I ran into this many years ago with multiple clusters on a box
and it is definitely non-obvious.


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