I assume it's doing it correctly

deb:/home/glyn# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
33554432

That's right isn't it?

 4096*8192= 33554432




----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Glyn Astill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Sent: Friday, 18 July, 2008 11:48:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Initdb problem on debian mips cobalt: Bus error
> 
> Glyn Astill wrote:
> > Hi Chaps,
> > 
> > I'm attempting to run 8.3.3 on an old cobalt qube, with debian etch.
> > It appeared to compile ok (however I didn't stick around to watch,
> > that'd be painfull) and said "PostgreSQL compiled successfully and
> > ready to install" or whatever, but when I run make check, fails in
> > initdb.
> > 
> > Here is the message and the initdb log file contents showing "bus
> > error"
> > 
> > http://privatepaste.com/47jTTGw5XC
> 
> Looks like a problem trying to determine how much shared memory it can
> allocate.
> 
> selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... sh: line 1: 22630 Bus 
> error (core dumped) 
> "/usr/pgsql_src/postgresql-8.3.3/src/test/regress/tmp_check/install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres"
>  
> 
> --boot -x0 -F -c max_connections=10 -c shared_buffers=4096 -c 
> max_fsm_pages=204800 <"/dev/null" >"/dev/null" 2>&1
> 
> Can you support 4096 shared-buffers on this? Afraid I don't know 
> anything about shared-mem handling on mips, but it might be that the 
> max-shared-memory detection got something wrong.
> 
> -- 
>    Richard Huxton
>    Archonet Ltd



      __________________________________________________________
Not happy with your email address?.
Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at 
Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html

-- 
Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org)
To make changes to your subscription:
http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Reply via email to