Neil, I posted to the apple site asking if anyone could recommend the 'correct' place to edit these settings. I don't think a change like this would survive a system update.....
But it was the only way I got the settings to 'take'. It deserves to be mentioned in the docs that this is necessary at least as far as 10.3.1 (osx). Ted --- Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Theodore Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > After about two hours of hunting pecking and > anything > > else I found where you control this in OSX 10.3 > > > > you must edit the /etc/rc file. > > > > > /System/Library/StartupItems/SystemTuning/SystemTuning > > does nothing.... > > Should we update the documentation's advice? At > present, it suggests: > > MacOS X > > Edit the file > /System/Library/StartupItems/SystemTuning/SystemTuning > and change the following values: > > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall > > (Without a Mac OSX box, I have no idea which is > correct.) > > -Neil > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
