PostgreSQL uses more memory on 6.1?

[Claus Guttesen]

> > You need to adjust the shared memory segments allowed by the kernel; see
> > /usr/ports/databases/postgresql<your-version>-server/pkg-message-server
> > for what to add to your kernel config. Most likely, you forgot to move
> > over your kernel customizations to your new kernel...?
>
> Nope, I took care of that:
>
> /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
> kern.ipc.semmap=256
> kern.ipc.shmmax=268435456
>
> /boot/loader.conf
>
> kern.ipc.semmni="256"
> kern.ipc.semmns="512"
> kern.ipc.semmnu="256"
>
> Furthermore, neither of those files (or even my kernel config file) changed
> between the previous reboot and the one that installed 6.1.  At any rate,
> the kern.ipc.shmmax is much, much greater than the 64MB that I'd been using
> before for shared_buffers (8192 buffers * 8 KB/buffer).

He probably meant the following kernel-settings:

options         SHMMAXPGS=393216
options         SEMMNI=240
options         SEMMNS=1440
options         SEMUME=240
options         SEMMNU=720

Those are for my quad-opteron server with 8 GB RAM. Adjust
accordingly. Did you compile a custom-build-kernel or GENERIC?

regards
Claus