Oh wait, that was a different thread. info still holds though. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Scott Marlowe<scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Anj Adu<fotographs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> You can use upto 64G of RAM on a 32 bit RHEL 5/ Fedora 8 OS using the kernel >> PAE extension. > > And it's about 15% slower, and pgsql itself can only access ~2 or 3G > shared and 2G per process. I routinely set shared_buffers to well > over 3G on big machines, and have a few reporting queries that run > truly huge work_mem settings. Really, there's not much reason to be > running postgresql on 32 bit unix anymore, unless you're stuck using > an ancient flavor or something. > > However, I was referring to Windows, where things are even worse, as > the OS only sees 3Gigs total cause apparently it doesn't support PAE. > -- When fascism comes to America, it will be intolerance sold as diversity. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
