Monthly Archives: March 2010

Dealing with “could not create shared memory segment” from postgres on Ubuntu

After installing postgresql-8.4 from the Ubuntu repos on an Ubuntu 9.10 machine, I received the following when the daemon tried to start up: 1234567 * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output: FATAL:  could not create shared … Continue reading

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Tune MySQL like a pro with MySQLTuner

I came across MySQLTuner recently and was most pleasantly surprised. It’s a Perl script that only requires your MySQL user and password to provide detailed and useful checks of a running MySQL instance. First though, check out the awesome URL … Continue reading

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