Re: The right SHMMAX and FILE_MAX

On 01/05/11 18:48, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> Now, according to my reading in the PG manual and this list, a good
> recommended value for SHMMAX is
>
>     (shared_buffers * 8192)
>
> My postgresql.conf settings at the moment are:
>
>      max_connections = 300
>      shared_buffers = 300MB
>      effective_cache_size = 2000MB
>
> By this calculation, shared_b * 8192 will be:
>
>       2,457,600,000,000
>
> That's a humongous number. So either the principle for SHMMAX is
> amiss, or I am reading this wrongly?

You are confusing shared_buffers expressed as "number of pages" with
shared_buffers expressed as "MB". The docs are assuming you are working
with the former (and would appear to be assuming your pagesize is 8K -
which is teh default but not required to be the case). If you are
showing shared_buffers as "MB" then obviously you cane set SHMMAX using
the value multiplied by (1024*1024), so in your case:

300 * (1024*1024) = 314572800


However note that there are things other than shared_buffers require
shared memory, so you'll need more than this. Use Greg's script.

Cheers

Mark