On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Mark Rinaudo wrote:
> I'm questioning the number of semaphores being used. In order for
> postgresql to start I had to set the maximum number of semaphores
> system
> wide to 6000000. This seems to be an abnormal amount of
> semaphores. I'm
> curious if this is a bug in the amd64 postgresql port. Is anyone else
> using postgresql on an AMD64 machine without similar issues?
>
No such nonsense required for me under FreeBSD 5.4/amd64. I used the
same settings I had under i386 OS. Postgres uses very few
semaphores, from what I recall. My system shows 13 active semaphores.
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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