Re: Question about memory allocations

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On Friday 13 April 2007 14:53:53 Carlos Moreno wrote:
> How does PG take advantage of the available memory?  I mean, if I have a
> machine with, say, 4 or 8GB of memory, how will those GBs would end
> up being used?   They just do??   (I mean, I would find that a vaild
> answer;

On linux the filesystem cache will gobble them up, which means indirectly 
pgsql profits as well (assuming no other apps poison the fs cache).

jan

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