Re: [SQL] shared_buffers and shmall,shmmax

2007-01-25 Thread Jie Liang
Tom, Sorry, it's 4kb, that explain it. Thank you, Regards, Jie Liang -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:15 PM To: Jie Liang Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: shared_buffers and shmall,shmmax > shmall is 65536 page

[SQL] shared_buffers and shmall,shmmax

2007-01-25 Thread Jie Liang
Tom, I am trying to tunrn my db server (p4 3.2GHzCPU, 2GB RAM on FreeBSD 5.5, postgresql 8.1.4), I am trying to increase the share_buffer to 512M 1/4 of RAM, so I set it to shared_buffers=65536 (512M), then failed to start, then I reduce to 6,4,3, it failed to start database until 2000

Re: [SQL] shared_buffers and shmall,shmmax

2007-01-25 Thread Tom Lane
> shmall is 65536 page And how big is a page? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do