Christiaan Willemsen <cwillemsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I'm wondering about the shmall setting myself. The Postgres docs >> suggest that FreeBSD measures shmall in pages. If so, the above >> setting is far too large and is perhaps resulting in an internal >> overflow in the kernel. >> > Hmm, might be.. I can try lowering the value, but if this is the problem > what is max? No idea, but I'd recommend setting it to physical RAM measured in pages. Not sure what FreeBSD uses as page size though. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general