From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:30:33 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update OS X shared memory documentation for 10.3.9 and later to use X-Git-Tag: REL8_1_4~78 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5e4bf929b35122f3b3d6155f90db42c5e4aa9e25;p=postgresql Update OS X shared memory documentation for 10.3.9 and later to use /etc/sysctl.conf. Chris Campbell --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index af1ccf38ba..a94d7a48ba 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @@ -887,19 +887,19 @@ sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmall changes take effect. - + + In OS X 10.3.9 and later, the file /etc/sysctl.conf + allows shared memory setting to be saved across operating system + upgrades, and is the recommended method for setting these + parameters. When using this file, all five shared memory values + must be set or the changes will be ignored. + - SHMALL is measured in 4KB pages on this platform. - Also note that some releases of OS X will reject attempts to - set SHMMAX to a value that isn't an exact multiple - of 4096. + SHMALL is measured in 4KB pages on this platform, + and recent releases of OS X reject attempts to set + SHMALL and SHMMAX to a value + that isn't an exact multiple of 4096.