Christiaan Willemsen <cwillemsen@technocon.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm wondering about the shmall setting myself. The Postgres docs
>> suggest that FreeBSD measures shmall in pages. If so, the above
>> setting is far too large and is perhaps resulting in an internal
>> overflow in the kernel.
>>
> Hmm, might be.. I can try lowering the value, but if this is the problem
> what is max?
No idea, but I'd recommend setting it to physical RAM measured in pages.
Not sure what FreeBSD uses as page size though.
regards, tom lane