From 016f0eed2441e5925c7c29f055bff3674ace2e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:10:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update BSDI SGML. --- doc/FAQ_BSDI | 2 +- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 15 +++++++-------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/FAQ_BSDI b/doc/FAQ_BSDI index 09abb57d09..bc678026af 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ_BSDI +++ b/doc/FAQ_BSDI @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) 2000-07-7 1) To increase the amount of malloc'ed memory and files opened by PostgreSQL, add this: - :datasize-cur=600M:\ + :datasize-cur=256M:\ :openfiles-cur=256: to your /etc/login.conf file. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index e26662117e..a003c72785 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -1536,14 +1536,13 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql By default, only 4 MB of shared memory is supported. Keep in mind that shared memory is not pageable; it is locked in RAM. - To increase the number of buffers supported by the - postmaster, increase SHMMAXPGS by 1024 for every - additional 4 MB of shared memory: + To increase the number of buffers supported by the postmaseter, add the + following to your kernel config file. A SHMALL value of 1024 + represents 4MB of shared memory. Increase it accordingly: -/sys/sys/shm.h:69:#define SHMMAXPGS 1024 /* max hardware pages... */ +options "SHMALL=4096" +options "SHMMAX=\(SHMALL*PAGE_SIZE\)" - The default setting of 1024 provides a maximum of 4 MB of shared - memory. @@ -1561,7 +1560,7 @@ $ bpatch -r sysptsize the bpatch value, plus add 1 for every additional 4 MB of shared memory you desire. -/sys/i386/i386/i386_param.c:28:#define SYSPTSIZE 0 /* dynamically... */ +options "SYSPTSIZE=13" sysptsize can not be changed by sysctl on the fly.