Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 11:48 schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:32:26AM +0100, mljv@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > So assuming i could choose between 4 GB RAM and 8 GB RAM and 32bit debian > > and 64bit debian. Which option would you choose? > > Always go for more RAM, whether you use 64 or 32-bit is really > orthoginal to that, whatever memory you have left you will be > profitably used as diskcache. Postgres does not need to be able to > access the memory directly to be able to use it... thanks a lot for this immediate reply and crystal clear answer. I will go for more RAM now. kind regards, janning ---------------------------(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