Hi to the list, its my first post. I was previous running postgres 8.2.1 on my OS X 10.4.9 laptop with no problems. After I sent it to apple care, I found that I can no longer start the postmaster daemon. When I try, I receive the standard shmget failed error message: FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=4112384, 03600). HINT: This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory or swap space. To reduce the request size (currently 4112384 bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared_buffers parameter (currently 300) and/or its max_connections parameter (currently 30). I get this error with either the settings recommended on the kernel resources page: kern.sysv.shmmax=4194304 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=1024 And I also get it when i set kern.sysv.shmmax=12582912 After making all these changed rebooting doesn't fix anything. Has anyone ran into this problem, or has any idea as to why this would start to fail so suddenly? Thanks, Chris
