On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Michael Kunzmann <m...@michaelkunzmann.com > wrote:
> Am 18.07.2013 17:33, schrieb bricklen: > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Michael Kunzmann < > m...@michaelkunzmann.com> wrote: > >> >> I've noticed the following issue when autostarting PostgreSQL under >> Ubuntu 12.04 64bit by bootup. I'm using PostgreSQL 9.1. >> >> 2013-07-18 06:44:12 CEST FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: >> > > How much RAM do you have, and what does the output of the following > command: > sysctl -ar 'kernel.shm' > > Hello, I have 8GB of RAM. > > The values are: > kernel.shm_rmid_forced = 0 > kernel.shmall = 2097152 > kernel.shmmax = 268435456 > kernel.shmmni = 4096 > > Set your kernel.shmall and kernel.shmmax higher in /etc/sysctl.conf. Eg. kernel.shmall = 6442450944 kernel.shmmax = 6442450944 -- Reload after changing it sudo sysctl -p More details can be found here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/kernel-resources.html