On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 17:46 +0200, Tapio PitkÃranta wrote: > We are running PostgreSQL 8.4 on a server with Linux CentOS with 144 > GB of memory. > > We have not been able to assign over 63 GB of memory for the Postgres: > if we try to do that, we are not able to start the postgresql server > process. You are probably hitting kernel.shmmax value in /etc/sysctl.conf . But... which parameter are you trying to set to 63GB? Regards, -- Devrim GÃNDÃZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL DanÄÅmanÄ/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer Community: devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz
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