-On [20030905 19:12], Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>It should not; there is something wrong here, not merely a documentation
>problem. I am wondering whether your 7.4 build fails to select a TAS()
>implementation --- if so, it would fall back to implementing spinlocks
>as semaphores, which would translate to a huge increase in the number of
>semaphores requested, which would likely result in this symptom. Can
>you strace the postmaster launch and see how many semget()s it does
>before dying?
I need to correct one statement Tom, the Athlon box had 3 semaphores in
use by another application. Which I killed after that. ipcs then
showed it was not using anything and initdb ran ok.
The Itanium box was also not using any semaphores and failed.
I also did the same on an 5.1-CURRENT Alpha box and it also worked.
So I guess the problem lies in the Itanium port. Or could I miss
something subtle here?
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