Re: 7.1 on Solaris 8 run failure?

'stock solaris' has a very low shared memory 'threshold' ... try doing
something like starting postmaster with:

-B 32 -N 16

or raising the shared memory settings in /etc/systems and reboot ..

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Adam Haberlach wrote:

> I've been holding off installing 7.1 on my Solaris machine, since
> it is at home and I didn't want to download it more then once, but
> now that it is released, I've tried, and...
>
> I built straight out of the box, using configure, the initdb seemed
> to work, and now I get:
>
> IpcMemoryCreate: shmget(key=5432001, size=1245184, 03600) failed: Invalid argument
>
> This error can be caused by one of three things:
>
> 1. The maximum size for shared memory segments on your system was
>    exceeded.  You need to raise the SHMMAX parameter in your kernel
>    to be at least 1245184 bytes.
>
> 2. The requested shared memory segment was too small for your system.
>    You need to lower the SHMMIN parameter in your kernel.
>
> 3. The requested shared memory segment already exists but is of the
>    wrong size.  This is most likely the case if an old version of
>    PostgreSQL crashed and didn't clean up.  The `ipcclean' utility
>    can be used to remedy this.
>
> ---
>
> This is on the mostly-stock Solaris that came on my Netra X1 server.
>
> # uname -a
> SunOS snatch 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
>
> ...anyone have any ideas?
>
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