Re: IPC Sys5 for amd64?

[Max Laier <max_(_at_)_love2party_(_dot_)_net>]

On Monday 02 March 2009 23:07:30 nicolas_(_at_)_boiteameuh_(_dot_)_org wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install a PostgreSQL db on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE amd64.
> It's seems I can't allocate a shared memory segment more than 2GB.
> I tune sysctl ipc.shm* values but without effects.
>
> IPC Sys5 isn't "64bit-aware" or the problem is elsewhere?

It looks like shm_segsz in struct shmid_ds is of type int, so that will limit 
your segment.  Also there are the kernel config options SHMMAX and SHMMAXPGS.

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