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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
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Subject: [neve@nlm.nih.gov: Solaris Port Users? ]
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 94 13:06:26 -0800
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clearing the mailing list queue.  our mail server has been flaky for 
the last few days, so i shut off the mailing list.  the motherboard 
has been replaced, we'll see how it goes.. -- paul

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> From:  neve@nlm.nih.gov (Leif Neve)
> To:  postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:  Solaris Port Users?
> Date:  Mon, 24 Jan 1994 17:58:50 +0500
>
> 
> I recently grabbed Dan Bidwell's Solaris 2.3 port of Postgres 4.1 and
> tried to use it and found that it hangs in the regression test in
> numerous places and core dumps in others.
> 
> For example, it spins its wheels endlessly on the "vacuum" call and on
> several of the retrieves (e.g. "retrieve (stud_emp.all)" and "retrieve (temp.
all)").
> 
> Has anyone tried to use this port? How are they faring?
> 
> Are there specific kernel modifications that you have found are necessary.
> I tried to increase limits for semaphores, semaphore IDs, max shared memory a
nd so on
> as per the SunOS instructions but this doesn't seem to help.
> 
> Leif Neve

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