Friday, December 07, 2007

Failed system call was shmget

When I try to setup PostgreSQL 8.2 on Mac OS X 10.4 , I get the following error.

Felix:~ sunfmin$ sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql82/bin/initdb -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb'
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 10
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 400kB/20000
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb/base/1 ... FATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory
DETAIL:  Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1646592, 03600).
HINT:  This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared memory segment exceeded available memory or swap space. To reduce the request size (currently 1646592 bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared_buffers parameter (currently 50) and/or its max_connections parameter (currently 10).
The PostgreSQL documentation contains more information about shared memory configuration.
child process exited with exit code 1
initdb: removing data directory "/opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb"

Following http://brilliantcorners.org/node/tag/osx

I changed: /etc/rc

sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=4194304 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=1024

to

sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=167772160 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=65536

And Then the problem solved.

Felix:~/Developments sunfmin$ sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql82/bin/initdb -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb'
Password:
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.

creating directory /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 32MB/204800
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb/base/1 ... ok
initializing pg_authid ... ok
initializing dependencies ... ok
creating system views ... ok
loading system objects' descriptions ... ok
creating conversions ... ok
setting privileges on built-in objects ... ok
creating information schema ... ok
vacuuming database template1 ... ok
copying template1 to template0 ... ok
copying template1 to postgres ... ok

WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the -A option the
next time you run initdb.

Success. You can now start the database server using:

    /opt/local/lib/postgresql82/bin/postgres -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb
or
    /opt/local/lib/postgresql82/bin/pg_ctl -D /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb -l logfile start

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