From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mike Rylander <mrylander@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Rinaudo <mark@bowmansystems.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgresql on an AMD64 machine
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:15:21 -0400
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Mike Rylander <mrylander@gmail.com> writes:
> On 06 Jun 2005 12:53:40 -0500, Mark Rinaudo <mark@bowmansystems.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if this is the appropriate list to post this question to
>> but i'm starting with this one because it is related to the performance
>> of Postgresql server. I have a Penguin Computing dual AMD 64 bit
>> opteron machine with 8 Gigs of memory. In my attempt to increase the
>> number of shared_buffers from the default to 65000 i was running into a
>> semget error when trying to start Postgresql.
> Did you perhaps disable spinlocks when compiling PG?
That sure looks like it must be the issue --- in a normal build the
number of semaphores needed does not vary with shared_buffers, but
it will if Postgres is falling back to semaphore-based spinlocks.
Which is a really bad idea from a performance standpoint, so you
want to fix the build.
Which PG version is this exactly, and what configure options did
you use? What compiler was used?
regards, tom lane
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