Re: [GENERAL] OS X Kernel settings

2007-04-05 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 05.04.2007, at 09:09, Scott Ribe wrote: Yes. You can now edit /etc/sysctl.conf and nothing else is required. I learned this ~10.4.8, so I don't know when it actually happened. Okay, that's good. They had the wrong order of commands before, so that the values in /etc/rc were used and not t

Re: [GENERAL] OS X Kernel settings

2007-04-05 Thread Scott Ribe
> I'm not sure whether Apple has fixed the > bug in the startup script, where the external file was referred AFTER > the values where set. Yes. You can now edit /etc/sysctl.conf and nothing else is required. I learned this ~10.4.8, so I don't know when it actually happened. -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] OS X Kernel settings

2007-04-04 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 04.04.2007, at 16:55, Jamie Deppeler wrote: Is this a safe setting for g5 1gig ram Os 10.4.9 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=167772160 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin=1 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni=32 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=8 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=65536 Why shouldn't it be safe? cug ---

[GENERAL] OS X Kernel settings

2007-04-04 Thread Jamie Deppeler
Is this a safe setting for g5 1gig ram Os 10.4.9 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=167772160 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmin=1 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmni=32 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmseg=8 sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall=65536 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versio

Re: [GENERAL] OS X Kernel settings

2007-04-04 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 03.04.2007, at 23:00, Jamie Deppeler wrote: Is it possible to set shared memory settings on the fly in OS X like you can in Linux e.g. sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=134217728 If this wasn't changed recently - no you can't. If you use /etc/sysctl.conf make sure it is loaded in /etc/rc before t

[GENERAL] OS X Kernel settings

2007-04-04 Thread Jamie Deppeler
Is it possible to set shared memory settings on the fly in OS X like you can in Linux e.g. sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=134217728 I have tried sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=134217728 with no luck, i know you can edit /etc/sysctl.conf file. But i would sooner set these settings as part of the postgresql