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Re: [HACKERS] Changing the default configuration (was Re:

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: "Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>, "PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-12T05:33:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance 
> A separate line of investigation is "what is the lowest common
> denominator nowadays?"  I think we've established that SHMMAX=1M
> is obsolete, but what replaces it as the next LCD?  4M seems to be
> correct for some BSD flavors, and I can confirm that that's the
> current default for Mac OS X --- any other comments?

It's 1025 * 4k pages on FreeBSD = 4MB

Chris