FWIW, i've been running two postmasters on the same port on a FreeBSD 6.0-RELENG server, one in the host and one in a jail (this is on a devel server). I don't like running postgresql in a jail anyway, because it involves enabling sysv IPC inside jails, which sort of defeats the entire purpose of having a jail.. Gr, Koen Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > It looks like moving to FreeBSD 6.x for some of our servers is biting me > in the butt ... they "broke" something with semaphores that used to work > with 4.x, so that you can't run two postmasters on port 5432 within two > seperate jails ... :( > > On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> >> What would cause the following? >> >> # psql -U pgsql -l >> psql: FATAL: semctl(327686, 3, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid argument >> >> The server is FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE ... there are two jails running >> on it ... both jails are running PostgreSQL 7.4 ... I have the kernel >> built with enough semaphores: >> >> options SYSVSHM >> options SHMMAXPGS=199608 >> options SHMMAX=(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1) >> >> options SYSVSEM >> options SEMMNI=4096 >> options SEMMNS=8192 >> >> options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues >> >> And am definitely not using that many: >> >> (from ipcs -a): >> ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR >> CGROUP NSEMS OTIME CTIME s 393216 5432001 >> --rw------- 70 70 70 70 17 13:46:07 13:46:07 >> s 393217 5432002 --rw------- 70 70 >> 70 70 17 13:46:07 13:46:07 >> s 393218 5432003 --rw------- 70 70 >> 70 70 17 13:46:07 13:46:07 >> s 393219 5432004 --rw------- 70 70 >> 70 70 17 13:46:07 13:46:07 >> s 393220 5432005 --rw------- 70 70 >> 70 70 17 13:46:07 13:46:07 >> s 393221 5432006 --rw------- 70 70 >> 70 70 17 13:46:07 13:46:07 >> s 393222 5432007 --rw------- 70 70 >> 70 70 17 13:46:07 13:46:07 >> >> So figure there must be something else that I should be looking at ... >> >> Thanks ... >> >> ---- >> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services >> (http://www.hub.org) >> Email: scrappy@xxxxxxx Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: >> 7615664 >> >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >> TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend >> > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@xxxxxxx Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > > -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc Wondering about the funny attachment your mail program can't read? Visit http://www.openpgp.org/