On May 7, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Christopher S Martin wrote:
No .pid files found in the data directory.
The ipcs output doesn't list anything owned by the postgres user, or by root.

I'm guessing the issue here is shmall, which I believe is limiting you to 4MB of shared memory. Is there *anything* using shared memory in the ipcs report?

shmmax shouldn't be at fault; based on your error message PostgreSQL is requesting less than shmmax.

Yes, if you boot verbosely it's normal to see all the shared memory settings 'being set twice'. /etc/rc first runs through everything in / etc/sysctl.conf, then it sets shared memory settings to defaults. The reason that 'works' is that the kernel locks in all the shared memory settings after the last one is set. That's why you have to put *all* of the shm settings in sysctl.conf; if you don't then the sysctl command in /etc/rc overwrites anything you set.
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