On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Campbell, Lance wrote:
Memory
There are many different ways to ask about memory. Rather than ask a
series of questions I went with a single question, #2. If it is better
to ask about the memory in a series of questions then please give me the
questions you would ask and why you would ask each of them. From my
understanding the primary memory issue as it relates to PostgreSQL is
"how much memory is available to PostgreSQL". Remember that this needs
to be as simple as possible.
there are three catagories of memory useage
1. needed by other software
2. available for postgres
3. needed by the OS
it's not clear if what you are asking is #2 or a combination of #2 and #3
IMHO you should ask for #2 and #3, possibly along the lines of "how much
memory is in the machine that isn't already used by other applications"
David Lang
