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Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Command Prompt, Inc." <pgsql-general@commandprompt.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, jlx@commandprompt.com
Date: 2002-05-21T03:09:23Z
Lists: pgsql-general, pgsql-sql 
"Command Prompt, Inc." <pgsql-general@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Does anyone have any experience in increasing the amount of shared memory
> buffers available to Mac OS X/Darwin?

A little bit of googling turns up Apple bug reports stating that OSX
has a hardwired limit on shared memory --- so no, short of modifying
and recompiling the kernel, you're outta luck.

			regards, tom lane