On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:43 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: > The other possibility is that Postgres just hasn't even touched a large part > of its shared buffers. > But then how do you explain the example I gave, with a 5.5GB table seq-scanned 3 times, shared buffers set to 12 GB, and top still showing almost 100% memory as cached and no SWAP "used" ? In this case you can't say postgres didn't touch it's shared buffers - or a sequential scan won't use the shared buffers ? Cheers, Csaba. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly