X-Original-To: pgsql-novice-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3366F9FA4E0; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:25:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28742-09; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:25:03 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail.logix-tt.com (mail.logix-tt.com [212.211.145.186]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849409FB206; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:25:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from kingfisher.intern.logix-tt.com (p549D25A1.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.157.37.161]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.logix-tt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B60656B8; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:26:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kingfisher.intern.logix-tt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B59180009EF; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:25:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44D78586.8060406@logix-tt.com> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:25:10 +0200 From: Markus Schaber Organization: Logical Tracking and Tracing International AG, Switzerland User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060713) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Saranya Sivakumar Cc: pgsqlnovice , pgsqlperform Subject: Re: [PERFORM] 7.3.2 pg_restore very slow References: <20060807172825.52230.qmail@web51314.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060807172825.52230.qmail@web51314.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.173 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/85 X-Sequence-Number: 17300 Hi, Saranya, Saranya Sivakumar wrote: > Thank you very much for the information. The SHMMAX was set to 33554432, > and that's why it failed to start the postmaster. Thanks for the link to > the kernel resources article. I guess changing these parameters would > require recompiling the kernel. As stated on the http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/kernel-resources.html page, those values can be changed via sysctl or echoing values into /proc, under linux at least. HTH, Markus -- Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org