summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/src
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorNathan Bossart2024-10-18 15:20:15 +0000
committerNathan Bossart2024-10-18 15:20:15 +0000
commit9e2d813d59a90e832e04ede62b8d4b2197513902 (patch)
tree80b18f00dbb7c0c118d223a7de520647465aca98 /doc/src
parent4b652692e97923298d0c7b9c1c303fc648984d92 (diff)
Adjust documentation for configuring Linux huge pages.
The present wording about viewing shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages seems to suggest that the parameter cannot be viewed after startup at all, whereas the intent is to make it clear that you can't use "postgres -C" to view this parameter while the server is running. This commit rephrases this section to remove the ambiguity. Author: Seino Yuki Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, David G. Johnston, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/420584fd274f9ec4f337da55ffb3b790%40oss.nttdata.com Backpatch-through: 15
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 2c4d5ef640d..a47fa67b380 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1429,11 +1429,10 @@ export PG_OOM_ADJUST_VALUE=0
with <varname>CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=y</varname> and
<varname>CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=y</varname>. You will also have to configure
the operating system to provide enough huge pages of the desired size.
- To determine the number of huge pages needed, use the
- <command>postgres</command> command to see the value of
- <xref linkend="guc-shared-memory-size-in-huge-pages"/>. Note that the
- server must be shut down to view this runtime-computed parameter.
- This might look like:
+ The runtime-computed parameter
+ <xref linkend="guc-shared-memory-size-in-huge-pages"/> reports the number
+ of huge pages required. This parameter can be viewed before starting the
+ server with a <command>postgres</command> command like:
<programlisting>
$ <userinput>postgres -D $PGDATA -C shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages</userinput>
3170