Re: Upper limit on number of buffers?

Michael J Schout wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Joe Conway wrote:
> 
> On redhat 6.2 I know that you can use /etc/sysctl.conf to do this as well.
> 
> Just add this to /etc/sysctl.conf.
> 
> kernel.shmall = 134217728
> kernel.shmmax = 134217728
> 
> After this, your tunables will be restored every time that the system boots.

I can confirm that that applies under Debian as well, although there is
also some stuff in the startup script for Debian to configure files max
specifically for PostgreSQL.

Cheers,            Andrew.
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