Well, did you consider getting the value of SHMMAX?
Check with ulimit (as the postgres user).
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, beyaNet Consultancy wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just installed the latest version of OS X panther (10.3.3) and
> am now getting the following error message:
>
> postgres$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument
> DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=10444800,
> 03600).
> HINT: This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared
> memory segment exceeded your kernel's SHMMAX parameter. You can either
> reduce the request size or reconfigure the kernel with larger SHMMAX.
> To reduce the request size (currently 10444800 bytes), reduce
> PostgreSQL's shared_buffers parameter (currently 1000) and/or its
> max_connections parameter (currently 100).
> If the request size is already small, it's possible that it is
> less than your kernel's SHMMIN parameter, in which case raising the
> request size or reconfiguring SHMMIN is called for.
> The PostgreSQL documentation contains more information about
> shared memory configuration.
>
> Any ideas on how i can resolve this issue?
>
> many thanks in advance
>
>
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