Kernel [memory] tweaking question

[Stijn Hoop]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 06:36:39PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> As far as I can tell, neither Apache nor MySQL
> use any SystemV IPC on FreeBSD.  (The only thing that I've found that
> does use SHM is X in some modes).

I know for a fact that PostgreSQL does use SysV IPC, and many times it
will run better if given more room to work with.

But as you said, use ipcs(1) to verify this for yourself if you're
running Postgres.

--Stijn

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