That's interesting. On my powerbook, I had to comment out the sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax line in /etc/rc. It appears that you can shrink shmmax but not expand it. This meant that it would properly set it based on /etc/syscttl.conf, but that (large) setting would then be over-written by the subsiquent sysctl -w.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:39:55AM -0700, Theodore Petrosky wrote: > I just updated to 10.3.9 and of course the /etc/rc was > dinged. I opened the /etc/rc and found a change.. > > # System tuning > sysctl -w kern.maxvnodes=$(echo $(sysctl -n > hw.physmem) '33554432 / 512 * 1024 +p'|dc) > if [ -f /etc/sysctl-macosxserver.conf ]; then > awk '{ if (!index($1, "#") && index($1, "=")) > print $1 }' < /etc/sysctl-macosxserver.conf | while > read > do > sysctl -w ${REPLY} > done > fi > > if [ -f /etc/sysctl.conf ]; then > awk '{ if (!index($1, "#") && index($1, "=")) > print $1 }' < /etc/sysctl.conf | while read > do > sysctl -w ${REPLY} > done > fi > > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=4194304 > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin=1 > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni=32 > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=8 > sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=1024 > > It appears that apple is checking for etc/sysctl.conf > before setting the sysctl values. so I created a > etc/sysctl.conf with this inside: > > kern.sysv.shmmax=33554432 > kern.sysv.shmmin=1 > kern.sysv.shmmni=32 > kern.sysv.shmseg=8 > kern.sysv.shmall=65536 > > I did not alter /etc/rc. postgresql starts up just > fine. I hope this implys that the issue is resolved.. > > Ted > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly