I have noticed that I can't set the shared buffers above 15512 which is exactly 128MB of RAM. Even if I set /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax above that, postgres refuses to start with a setting over 128MB. Anyone have any ideas about this? I guess there are a couple of questions - would I ever need a shared buffers setting over 128MB? And if I do, how can I set it? The database performs a lot of searches that are very heavy on seq scans on a couple of tables, one with 35k rows that joins agains one with 2m rows. The results are always sorted. The system is Running SuSe 9.2 with kernel 2.6.8 on 2xAMD Opteron with 4GB RAM Alex Turner NetEconomist ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq