I assume it's doing it correctly
deb:/home/glyn# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
33554432
That's right isn't it?
4096*8192= 33554432
----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
> To: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2008 11:48:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Initdb problem on debian mips cobalt: Bus error
>
> Glyn Astill wrote:
> > Hi Chaps,
> >
> > I'm attempting to run 8.3.3 on an old cobalt qube, with debian etch.
> > It appeared to compile ok (however I didn't stick around to watch,
> > that'd be painfull) and said "PostgreSQL compiled successfully and
> > ready to install" or whatever, but when I run make check, fails in
> > initdb.
> >
> > Here is the message and the initdb log file contents showing "bus
> > error"
> >
> > http://privatepaste.com/47jTTGw5XC
>
> Looks like a problem trying to determine how much shared memory it can
> allocate.
>
> selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... sh: line 1: 22630 Bus
> error (core dumped)
> "/usr/pgsql_src/postgresql-8.3.3/src/test/regress/tmp_check/install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres"
>
> --boot -x0 -F -c max_connections=10 -c shared_buffers=4096 -c
> max_fsm_pages=204800 <"/dev/null" >"/dev/null" 2>&1
>
> Can you support 4096 shared-buffers on this? Afraid I don't know
> anything about shared-mem handling on mips, but it might be that the
> max-shared-memory detection got something wrong.
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
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