Re: [HACKERS] IPC Memory problem with Postmaster on BSDi 4.x

> IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed (Invalid argument) key=5432001,
> size=1063936, permission=600
> FATAL 1:  ShmemCreate: cannot create region
> 
> To me it sounds like it is using some kind of wrong argument with shmget,
> but I don't know how to fix this. I hope someone can help me.
> 
> This is what I get when I write ipcs ->
> Message Queues:
> T           ID          KEY        MODE    OWNER    GROUP
> 
> Shared Memory:
> T           ID          KEY        MODE    OWNER    GROUP
> m       196608      5432210 --rwa------ postgres     user
> m       196609      5432201 --rw------- postgres     user
> m       983042      5432207 --rw------- postgres     user
> m      1376259      5432010 --rwa------ postgres postgres
> m       131076      5432001 --rw------- postgres     user
> m       786437      5432007 --rw------- postgres postgres
> 
> Semaphores:
> T           ID          KEY        MODE    OWNER    GROUP
> 
> If it's anything I need to do with IPC or PostgreSQL, please let me know
> what and how, or maybe this is a bug ?  I hope not, I love this database
> engine and really wanna start using 6.5.1 asap.

I am running BSDI here.  Try using pgsql/bin/ipcclean to remove the
current shared memory stuff.  Seems the old version did not clean up its
shared memory.

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