Re: shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X

Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
> On 16-Nov-06, at 7:03 PM, Brian Wipf wrote:
>> Has anyone else noticed this limitation on OS X? Any ideas on how I
>> might get shared_buffers higher than 284263?

> My guess is something else has taken shared memory ahead of you. OS X
> seems to be somewhat strange in how it deals with shared memory. Try
> allocating more to shmmax ?

Look in "ipcs -m -a" output to check this theory.  (I am glad to see
that ipcs and ipcrm are finally there in recent OS X releases --- awhile
back they were not, leaving people to fly entirely blind while dealing
with issues like this :-()

            regards, tom lane