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On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 09:32:59PM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > The PostgreSQL performance tuning page says this:
> >=20
> > "You might also want to configure your kernel to lock shared memory into
> > RAM and prevent it from being paged out to swap. Use the sysctl setting
> > kern.ipc.shm_use_phys."
> >=20
> > This value doesn't appear in NetBSD and I can't find anything that looks
> > like it does the same thing.  Does NetBSD have some sort of control for
> > locking shared memory (SYSV) into RAM?
>=20
> No, AFAIK.=20

Not a sysctl or similar, but you should be able to mlock() the
address-range of the SHM segment, I guess.

In any case, making such a knob global seems a bit to coarse.

--
Dan.

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