On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Anj Adu <fotographs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a 16G box and tmpfs is configured to use 8G for tmpfs . > > Is a lot of memory being wasted that can be used for Postgres ? (I am > not seeing any performance issues, but I am not clear how Linux uses > the tmpfs and how Postgres would be affected by the reduction in > memory) What does the output of "free -m" look like when the database is as heavily used as it typically gets? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance