# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8273364 kB MemFree: 6455204 kB Buffers: 99180 kB Cached: 564436 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1191560 kB Inactive: 500768 kB Active(anon): 1032072 kB Inactive(anon): 456 kB Active(file): 159488 kB Inactive(file): 500312 kB Unevictable: 4284 kB Mlocked: 4284 kB HighTotal: 7473504 kB HighFree: 5863364 kB LowTotal: 799860 kB LowFree: 591840 kB SwapTotal: 1048572 kB SwapFree: 1048572 kB Dirty: 196 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 1033004 kB Mapped: 34528 kB Shmem: 556 kB Slab: 89048 kB SReclaimable: 43168 kB SUnreclaim: 45880 kB KernelStack: 2584 kB PageTables: 4512 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 5185252 kB Committed_AS: 1167668 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 6928 kB VmallocChunk: 70836 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 8184 kB DirectMap2M: 905216 kB -----Original Message----- From: Khangelani Gama [mailto:kgama@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:09 AM To: 'John R Pierce'; 'pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory Hi John Yes that's the whole messege # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8079 1770 6309 0 95 549 -/+ buffers/cache: 1125 6953 Swap: 1023 0 1023 Thanks -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 7:58 AM To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory On 4/23/2013 10:53 PM, Khangelani Gama wrote: > We are running postgres 9.1 on CentOS 5. We can't start up postgres . > It complains about memory allocation . Please help > > FATAL: shmat(id=3342337) failed: Cannot allocate memory > is that the entire error message? it usually says something about setting kernel.shmmax and/or shmall... for most flavors of linux, you set these in /etc/sysctl.conf (and then update the live system with "sysctl -p"). -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The contents of and attachments to this e-mail are intended for the addressee only, and may contain the confidential information of Argility (Proprietary) Limited and/or its subsidiaries. Any review, use or dissemination thereof by anyone other than the intended addressee is prohibited.If you are not the intended addressee please notify the writer immediately and destroy the e-mail. Argility (Proprietary) Limited and its subsidiaries distance themselves from and accept no liability for unauthorised use of their e-mail facilities or e-mails sent other than strictly for business purposes. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
