IPC Sys5 for amd64?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 3 05:30:00 PST 2009


nicolas at boiteameuh.org wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install a PostgreSQL db on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE amd64.
> It's seems I can't allocate a shared memory segment more than 2GB.
> I tune sysctl ipc.shm* values but without effects.
> 
> IPC Sys5 isn't "64bit-aware" or the problem is elsewhere?

Yes, SYSVSHM is limited to 2 GB in 7.1. It has recently been extended in
-CURRENT, it will probably be MFC-ed to 7-STABLE (7.2) soon.

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