> Von: Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Datum: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:40:10 -0400 >> Tom, I suspect you have Mac OS X Server installed, right? That's probably >> why your /etc/sysctl.conf file mentions that /etc/sysctl-macosxserver.conf >> file, while mine doesn't. > > Uh, no, I'm looking at my laptop. Curious that yours has no reference > to the other file. Indeed. Good to hear you are using a Mac, though. >> And frankly, to me it looks as if it means "if there is a /etc/sysctl.conf >> file, then read it and accept its settings. Then overwrite the sysctl >> settings with the default values, no matter what." > > You're forgetting the point I made that the first complete set of shmem > settings wins. Of course I only understood what you said there after I hit the send button. Now it clicked, thanks for putting it so politely. > If we could change the settings on the fly after that, > all this would be a whole lot easier, but the OSX kernel locks them down > somehow. Yeah, I wonder if this locking down somehow doesn't work on my machine. I mean I successfully changed all of the other shm value via that file, only that shmmax value would'nt budge. > BTW, I dunno if you read awk at all, but that awk command effectively > says "print lines that contain = and do not contain #". Ah, no I wasn't aware of this. > You didn't try > appending comments to the setting lines in your file did you? No, i didn't. I think I will try messing with the rc file directly. Thanks, Maximilian Tyrtania | IT-Entwickler Mty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx fischerAppelt Kommunikation GmbH Friedichstr. 149 | D-10117 Berlin | Germany Tel. ++49-30-726146-728 | Fax ++49-30-726146-710 www.fischerAppelt.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Standorte: Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, München, Stuttgart Die Gesellschaft ist Teil des Everpublic Networks Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 49259 Geschäftsführer: Andreas Fischer-Appelt, Bernhard Fischer-Appelt +++ fischerAppelt macht Fernsehen: www.fischerappelt-tvmedia.com +++ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
