On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, John Huttley <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ahh bugger, I've just trashed my test setup. > I've settled on 64Mb shared memory since I've only got 1Gb or RAM and the > system impact of 256M is severe. > Also it uses FB-DIMMS which cost arm+leg+first born http://www.crucial.com/search/searchresults.aspx?keywords=buffered Fully buffered memory there is $56.99 for a 1 Gig stick. That's hardly an arm and a leg. Considering many pgsql DBAs make that in 1 to 3 hours, it's not much at all really. A lot cheaper than pulling your hair out trying to make a db server run on 1 Gig.