On Apr 29, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > For comparison, I have these settings on my laptop: > > pro:~ tgl$ cat /etc/sysctl.conf > kern.sysv.shmmax=33554432 > kern.sysv.shmmin=1 > kern.sysv.shmmni=32 > kern.sysv.shmseg=8 > kern.sysv.shmall=8192 > > and PG starts fine for me. I'm not sure what magic you have in there, but this incantation copied verbatim worked for me. Thanks! The first sysctl.conf I tried that didn't work from from the one-click installer's README. Do you see anything about the following settings that jumps out at you as bad? Is it notable that yours don't set the maxproc*? kern.sysv.shmmax=1610612736 kern.sysv.shmall=393216 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.maxprocperuid=512 kern.maxproc=2048 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin