On Feb 3, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Shane Ambler wrote:
just so you can look into it for your own curiosity ;-) - Mac OS X
uses the startup disk for VM storage. You can find the files in - /
var/vm
You will find the swapfiles there, the size of the swapfiles
progressively get larger - swapfile0 and 1 are 64M then 2 is 128M,
3 is 256M, 4 is 512M, 5 is 1G.... each is preallocated so it only
gives you a rough idea of how much vm is being used. You would run
out when your startup disk is full, though most apps probably hit
the wall at 4G of vm unless you have built a 64bit version.
The 4G (32bit) limit may be where you hit the out of memory errors
(or is postgres get around that with it's caching?).
Any idea if postgres on OS X can truely access more that 4 gigs if
the 64 bit version is built? I have tried building the 64 bit version
of some other apps on OS X, and I have never been convinced that they
behaved as true 64 bit.
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Shane Ambler
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