On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 10:19 AM, Adam Witney wrote:
I don't know what this error is particularly, but just to say that 7.4beta5
compiles and starts up fine on my OSX 10.2.8 machine
OK, I compiled beta 5 and put my rest SHMMAX back to the default settings as provided by OS X. Still the same error:
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.
Here is how I configured it:
./configure --prefix=/Unix/postgresql --enable-locale --without-readline --with-includes=/sw/include --with-libraries=/sw/lib --with-openssl=/sw/lib
Next I upgraded to 10.2.8. Same issue.
So you have not modified your memory settings in /System/Library/StartupItems/SystemTuning/SystemTuning and you don't get this error?
I'm using a PowerBook G4 with 512M of memory.
Thanks,
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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