On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > > > 1) How to set shmmax in debian? > > > > For the running kernel, echo a value to /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax - to > > make it a permanent setting (i.e. set automatically at subsequent > > reboots), include the setting in /etc/sysctl.conf: > > > > kernel.shmmax=whatever > > Umm, shmmax is auto-adjusted now in the 2.6 kernel. This is not the > real reason he is having difficulty. Hmm, since which kernel version, out of interest? The reason I ask is that I found it necessary to set SHMMAX for an AMD64 Sarge machine with 16GB RAM running as a PostgreSQL database server and improved performance significantly as a result. For compatability reasons with the hardware, I couldn't use the most recent kernel: it's running 2.6.12. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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