"Tena Sakai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Namely, I shutdown the database, issued two commands: > /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=134217728 > /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.shmall=2097152 > and rebooted the computer. > > After it came up, I checked the shmmax and it is set > as 33554432. Which surprised me. Since I used -w > flag, I thought it should've written to /etc/sysctl.conf, > but there is no such entry at all and the data of this > file is from 2006.
sysctl changes the values for the running kernel. /etc/sysctl is a file you edit manually to tell the boot scripts what values to store (using sysctl) so you don't have to run sysctl every time you reboot. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostGIS support! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
