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From: data tanger <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Issue with SHMALL parameter
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:59:53 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)


Hi,
I'm using postgresql 9.1 as my database server on a linux server that has 8 GB of RAM.
After I changed the shared_buffers parameter to 2GB, I get the following error when I try to start postgres:
FATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memoryDETAIL:  Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=2221539328, 03600).
Here are the shmall and the shmax params of my server:
#cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax     68719476736
#cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall     4294967296
So as you see, shmall is greater than the requested size by postgres. Anyone have and idea?
thank you 		 	   		  

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