At 09:06 PM 1/24/02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Since OSX is basically BSD under the hood, I'd expect BSD-ish solutions to
>be the place to look. Our notes about BSD systems say that a kernel
>rebuild is the only way to alter SHMMAX on those kernels :-(
OS/X is FreeBSD, with a MACH kernel and Aqua as a window manager (pretty much).
I don't know enough about tuning the MACH kernel, but on a pure FreeBSD
system you can use "sysctl" to change the variable "kernel.ipc.shmmax" on
the fly to whatever you think makes sense.
-crl
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