Received: from eta.ece.rice.edu (ece.rice.edu [128.42.4.34]) by hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA42199 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:45:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from reedstrm@rice.edu) Received: from rice.edu (wallace.ece.rice.edu [128.42.12.154]) by eta.ece.rice.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA09379 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:41:01 -0600 (CST) Sender: reedstrm@ece.rice.edu Message-ID: <36D31351.49D8223B@rice.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:45:05 -0600 From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" Organization: NSBRI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.34 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Subject: Re: SV: [INTERFACES] couldn't start postmaster - couldn't allocate sharedmemory References: <199902231908.UAA12649@mb07.swip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 > > Till: Tobias Eriksson > > 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., NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer Computer and Information Technology Institute Rice University, 6100 S. Main St., Houston, TX 77005