64bit sysv ipc code
Vivek Khera
vivek at khera.org
Thu Jul 26 19:20:46 UTC 2007
On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Daniel Gish wrote:
> The system has 8 gigs of memory. We need to set a high SHMMAXPGS
> for Postgresql, and we're unable to set it above 2 gigs. This
> message back in December gives more details about the problem, and
> mentions that "someone needs to go over the sysv ipc code and make
> it 64-bit capable":
i run with 2Gb of SHM on boxes with 8Gb and 20Gb of RAM respectively,
and it works just fine. Much of the database ends up in the I/O
cache of the system.
That said, I'd like to try higher SHM values too, especially on the
20Gb box :-)
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