On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:09:42AM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote: > >and set them to anything remotely close to 128GB. > > Well, we'd give 25% of it to postgres, and the rest to the OS. Are you quite sure that PostgreSQL's management of the buffers is efficient with such a large one? In the past, that wasn't the case for relatively small buffers; with the replacement of single-pass LRU, that has certainly changed, but I'd be surprised if anyone tested a buffer as large as 32G. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness. --George Orwell
