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Allowing SYSV shared memory to allocated more than 2GB


From: Jan Lentfer <Jan.Lentfer@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:39:31 +0200

When trying to test PostgreSQL concurrency on Matt's Opteron 48 core box with 64 GB of RAM I encountered the problem, that I wasn't able to set kern.ipc.shmmax to more than 1,99 GB.

In colloboration with Sascha Wildner I created the following patch which allows to address more >= 2GB of shared memory. I ran PostgreSQL 9.0.4 on a X86_64 VM w/ 4GB configured with shared_buffers set to 2 GB (PostgreSQL uses shared memory for other things so we are well above the previous 1,99 limit).

What isn't clear to Sascha and me: Do we need to bump the libc version because of this? Opinions please.

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/~lentferj/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/fa192ede950cd73380c8a257eea983831d3b97fe

Jan



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