Re: requested shared memory size overflows size_t

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:58:47AM +0100, Tom Wilcox wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to revive an old thread but I have had this error whilst trying to
> configure my 32-bit build of postgres to run on a 64-bit Windows Server
> 2008 machine with 96GB of RAM (that I would very much like to use with
> postgres).
>
> I am getting:
>
> 2010-06-02 11:34:09 BSTFATAL:  requested shared memory size overflows size_t
> 2010-06-02 11:41:01 BSTFATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: 8
> 2010-06-02 11:41:01 BSTDETAIL:  Failed system call was MapViewOfFileEx.
>
> which makes a lot of sense since I was setting shared_buffers (and
> effective_cache_size) to values like 60GB..

I realize other answers have already been given on this thread; I figured I'd
just refer to the manual, which says, "The useful range for shared_buffers on
Windows systems is generally from 64MB to 512MB." [1]

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/runtime-config-resource.html

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