In response to Christiaan Willemsen <cwillemsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > #sysctl -a | grep shm > kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed: 0 > kern.ipc.shm_use_phys: 1 > kern.ipc.shmall: 68719476736 > kern.ipc.shmseg: 128 > kern.ipc.shmmni: 192 > kern.ipc.shmmin: 1 > kern.ipc.shmmax: 68719476736 Try bumping shmmni: $ sysctl -d kern.ipc.shmmni kern.ipc.shmmni: Number of shared memory identifiers I have this set to 1000 on most of my systems. Can't seem to find my notes on it right now, but that may be your holdup. The PG docs seem to indicate that this number can be set very low, as PG only needs a single identifier, but I must have had _some_ reason for raising it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general