From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@coretech.co.nz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Instructions for Linux ipc config
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:18:35 +1300
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood <markir@coretech.co.nz> writes:
>
>>Glancing over these as I was doing the FreeBSD patch, I noticed some
>>scope for modernization there plus a possible error to correct:
>
>
>>i) we could standardize the change method to use sysctl instead of
>>echo'ing things into /proc/kernel/* structures (unless there is some
>>reason for this to be preferable?)
>
>
> How far back in Linux history does that work? It would be bad to remove
> instructions needed for versions that people are still using. But yeah,
> if we can standardize on describing sysctl that's probably a good thing,
> since it applies to more than one platform.
>
>
Interesting question (goes away to look at old linux distros...). Some
quite old ones have a sysctl binary - e.g. Redhat 6.2 / linux 2.2.14.
But to be on the safe side, it would make sense to do something similar
to the BSD section, and comment about older distributions maybe needing
to manipulate /proc/kernel/* directly.
regards
Mark
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