Received: from taru.tm.ee (taru.tm.ee [194.204.62.23]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4TDJ6E83864 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 09:19:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hannu@tm.ee) Received: from tm.ee (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by taru.tm.ee (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4TDSsI12380 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 15:28:54 +0200 Message-ID: <3B13A416.185811EB@tm.ee> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:28:54 +0200 From: Hannu Krosing X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: et, en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" Subject: problems setting shared memory on linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200105/1161 X-Sequence-Number: 9451 Hi Has anyoone had similar problems ? I have problems satting SHMALL on some linux (RedHat 6.2) computers when I try to set them to 128MB (on a 256MB computer), it has no effect. [root@amphora2 /root]# echo 134217728 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax [root@amphora2 /root]# echo 134217728 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmall [root@amphora2 /root]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmall 4194304 [root@amphora2 /root]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 134217728 ------------------ Hannu