From: Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>
To: Tom Wilcox <hungrytom@googlemail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: requested shared memory size overflows size_t
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 20:27:46 -0600
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:58:47AM +0100, Tom Wilcox wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to revive an old thread but I have had this error whilst trying to
> configure my 32-bit build of postgres to run on a 64-bit Windows Server
> 2008 machine with 96GB of RAM (that I would very much like to use with
> postgres).
>
> I am getting:
>
> 2010-06-02 11:34:09 BSTFATAL: requested shared memory size overflows size_t
> 2010-06-02 11:41:01 BSTFATAL: could not create shared memory segment: 8
> 2010-06-02 11:41:01 BSTDETAIL: Failed system call was MapViewOfFileEx.
>
> which makes a lot of sense since I was setting shared_buffers (and
> effective_cache_size) to values like 60GB..
I realize other answers have already been given on this thread; I figured I'd
just refer to the manual, which says, "The useful range for shared_buffers on
Windows systems is generally from 64MB to 512MB." [1]
[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/runtime-config-resource.html
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