Re: Initdb problem on debian mips cobalt: Bus error

Glyn Astill wrote:
> Hi Chaps,
>
> I'm attempting to run 8.3.3 on an old cobalt qube, with debian etch.
> It appeared to compile ok (however I didn't stick around to watch,
> that'd be painfull) and said "PostgreSQL compiled successfully and
> ready to install" or whatever, but when I run make check, fails in
> initdb.
>
> Here is the message and the initdb log file contents showing "bus
> error"
>
> http://privatepaste.com/47jTTGw5XC

Looks like a problem trying to determine how much shared memory it can
allocate.

selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... sh: line 1: 22630 Bus
error (core dumped)
"/usr/pgsql_src/postgresql-8.3.3/src/test/regress/tmp_check/install/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres"
--boot -x0 -F -c max_connections=10 -c shared_buffers=4096 -c
max_fsm_pages=204800 <"/dev/null" >"/dev/null" 2>&1

Can you support 4096 shared-buffers on this? Afraid I don't know
anything about shared-mem handling on mips, but it might be that the
max-shared-memory detection got something wrong.

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