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From: Tobias Eriksson <tobias.eriksson@mbox311.swipnet.se>
To: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: SV: SV: [INTERFACES] couldn't start postmaster - couldn't allocate sharedmemory
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:15:45 +0100
Message-ID: <199902242217.XAA03652@mb06.swip.net> (raw)

Thanx, I got it working but I now I get some INIT... pg ... error message
saying something like
could not spawn, timing problems of some kind, an that it will retry in 5
minutes.
Anyonewho's got any good ideas.

regards
 Tobias

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> Från: Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@rice.edu>
> Till: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
> Ämne: Re: SV: [INTERFACES] couldn't start postmaster - couldn't allocate
sharedmemory
> Datum:  den 23 februari 1999 21:45
> 
> Tobias - 
> Any chance your  out of semaphores? Try ipcs to see what's allocated,
> then 
> the ipcclean script (in your lib/postgresql/bin dir) to clean them up.
> 
> Tobias Eriksson wrote:
> ----------
> > > Från: James Thompson <jamest@math.ksu.edu>
> > > Till: Tobias Eriksson <tobias.eriksson@mbox311.swipnet.se>
> > > Ämne: Re: [INTERFACES] couldn't start postmaster - couldn't allocate
> > sharedmemory
> > > Datum:  den 22 februari 1999 23:04
> > >
> > > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Tobias Eriksson wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > the command
> > > > "postmaster ", well then it responded back that it could not
allocate
> > > > shared memory,
> > >
> > > I'm just guessing.  Are you low on physical memory or swap space?
> > >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> 
> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
> Computer and Information Technology Institute
> Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005
> 



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