There is info in the Administrator's Guide that might help:
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?kernel-resources.html
Bob
On Thursday 13 December 2001 11:42 am, Joe Koenig wrote:
> My system is FreeBSD 4.3 with 1GHz P3, 1GB RAM, SCSI RAID 5. I read an
> article on PHPBuilder about optimizing PostgreSQL - one big thing was
> increasing shared memory. I asked on the FreeBSD mailing list and got
> different suggestions as to how to increase the shared memory - my main
> question is - do I need to rebuild my kernel? I used sysctl -w
> shmall=131072 to up my shared mem, then edited postgresql.conf to show:
>
> shared_buffers = 15200
> sort_mem = 32168
>
> and postgres wouldn't start. I assume that means the shared buffers is
> actually larger than the amount of shared mem, so it appears the sysctl
> didn't really do anything. If I comment out the shared_buffers line,
> postgres will start, but upping the sort mem doesn't help my insert
> speed. Can anyone help me out with how to get the shared mem increased
> so I can up the shared_buffers in postgres? Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
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