Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory errors on OS X

2004-10-03 Thread Scott Ribe
> Given that they have improved their SysV IPC support steadily over the > past few Darwin releases, I don't see why you'd expect them to not be > willing to do this. Having a larger default limit costs them *zero* if > the feature is not used, so what's the objection? The objection would be atti

Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory errors on OS X

2004-10-03 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Ribe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have asked Apple about using a saner default for shmmax, but a few >> more complaints in their bug system wouldn't hurt. > I suspect it won't help, since their official position is already "don't use > shmget, use mmap instead"... Given that they have i

Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory errors on OS X

2004-10-03 Thread Scott Ribe
> I have asked Apple about using a saner default for shmmax, but a few > more complaints in their bug system wouldn't hurt. I suspect it won't help, since their official position is already "don't use shmget, use mmap instead"... -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303)

Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory errors on OS X

2004-09-30 Thread Kevin Barnard
Maybe this is a server vs normal OS X issue. I am postgres on a normal iMac 10.3.5 with no problems, but this is just a developent box so I don't need the server version. All of the servers that I run are Linux/FreeBSD. I don't have access to a Mac server, if I did I would test this myself. On

Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory errors on OS X

2004-09-29 Thread Jeffrey Melloy
Tom Lane wrote: Jeffrey Melloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a couple users trying to install Postgres on OS X. To the best of my knowledge, both of them are using 7.4.5/10.3.5, and got identical errors while trying to init the database: They need to increase the system's shmmax lim

Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory errors on OS X

2004-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Jeffrey Melloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a couple users trying to install Postgres on OS X. To the best > of my knowledge, both of them are using 7.4.5/10.3.5, and got identical > errors while trying to init the database: They need to increase the system's shmmax limit (sysctl kern.s

Re: [GENERAL] Out of memory errors on OS X

2004-09-29 Thread Neil Conway
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:49, Jeffrey Melloy wrote: > I have a couple users trying to install Postgres on OS X. To the best > of my knowledge, both of them are using 7.4.5/10.3.5, and got identical > errors while trying to init the database: Have you tried the suggestions in the documentation?

[GENERAL] Out of memory errors on OS X

2004-09-29 Thread Jeffrey Melloy
I have a couple users trying to install Postgres on OS X. To the best of my knowledge, both of them are using 7.4.5/10.3.5, and got identical errors while trying to init the database: Reducing the shared buffers didn't help. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Jeffrey Melloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wi