Re: [GENERAL] Memory Errors OS X

2004-12-22 Thread Jeffrey Melloy
Tom Lane wrote: Jeffrey Melloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I attempted to install 8.0 RC 2 alongside 7.4.5 on my OS X box, but initdb failed with an error about not enough shared memory. Don't forget that both shmmax and shmall may need attention ... and, just to confuse matters, they are

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Errors OS X

2004-12-22 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
What version of OS X? Apparently some of the earlier versions did not permit changing this parameter without recompiling the kernel. It seems to have been changed in the more recent versions, though: http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hackers/2002-August/003583.html http://borkware.com/rants/op

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Errors OS X

2004-12-22 Thread Tom Lane
Jeffrey Melloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I attempted to install 8.0 RC 2 alongside 7.4.5 on my OS X box, but > initdb failed with an error about not enough shared memory. Don't forget that both shmmax and shmall may need attention ... and, just to confuse matters, they are measured in differe

[GENERAL] Memory Errors OS X

2004-12-22 Thread Jeffrey Melloy
I attempted to install 8.0 RC 2 alongside 7.4.5 on my OS X box, but initdb failed with an error about not enough shared memory. Remembering that this was a problem for starting two postmasters at the same time on OS X, I increased the shmmax value to 500 megabytes (I had seen something say rais