Re: [PERFORM] requested shared memory size overflows size_t

2008-07-15 Thread Stephen Conley
Hey there; As Tom notes before maybe you're not using the right postgres. Solaris 10 comes with a postgres, but on SPARC it's 32 bit compiled (I can't speak to x86 Solaris though). Assuming that's not the problem, you can be 100% sure if your Postgres binary is actually 64 bit by using the file

Re: [PERFORM] 3ware vs Areca

2008-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > >> Their firmware is, frankly, garbage. In more than one instance we >> have had the card panic when a disk fails, which is obviously counter >> to the entire purpose of a RAID. We

Re: [PERFORM] 3ware vs Areca

2008-07-15 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Baker wrote: But most recently in my memory we had an Areca HBA which, when one of its WD RE-2 disks failed, completely stopped responding to both the command line and the web management interface. What operating system/kernel version are you using on these system

Re: [PERFORM] 3ware vs Areca

2008-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > >> But most recently in my memory we had an Areca HBA which, when one of its >> WD RE-2 disks failed, completely stopped responding to both the command line >> and the web management

Re: [PERFORM] requested shared memory size overflows size_t

2008-07-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Uwe Bartels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When trying to to set shared_buffers greater then 3,5 GB on 32 GB x86 > machine with solaris 10 I running in this error: > FATAL: requested shared memory size overflows size_t > The solaris x86 ist 64-bit and the compiled postgres is as well 64-bit. Eit

[PERFORM] requested shared memory size overflows size_t

2008-07-15 Thread Uwe Bartels
Hi, When trying to to set shared_buffers greater then 3,5 GB on 32 GB x86 machine with solaris 10 I running in this error: FATAL: requested shared memory size overflows size_t The solaris x86 ist 64-bit and the compiled postgres is as well 64-bit. Postgresql 8.2.5. max-shm ist allowed to 8GB. pr