On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:14:46AM -0700, Steve Wampler wrote: > Also, what kernel are you using with CentOS 5 - a 32-bit (with hugemem > to support the 8GB) or a 64-bit? And which was PostgreSQL compiled for? You don't need a 32bit kernel to support 8GB of memory should you? As long as the kernel supports PAE that should be enough to make use of it. You only need a 64bit address space when each process wants to see more than ~3GB of RAM. Sam ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster