Re: Can't increase max connections

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Roberto De Shong wrote:

| I have installed PostgreSQL 7.3 on FreeBSD 4.10 Stable, and have been
| trying to increase the max connections. the most I'm able to is 40, if I
| increase it any higher I'm unable to start the database. Is there any
| tip, s hte any guide where I can get an idea of the other values to set
| in postgresql.conf for increasing max connections? I had also recompile
| the kernel and changed maxusers from 0 to 64. I'm not sure if increasing
| it even more would allow me increase connections. Would appreciate some
| help, thanks.

Most likely you are out of shared memory segments that you OS allow.
If you are on Linux try to pump-up  shmmax and shmall

Regards
Gaetano Mendola



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