Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD8763568D for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:21:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89238-05 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:21:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtp1.hi-media-techno.com (smtp1.hi-media-techno.com [195.158.241.85]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8259635682 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:21:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.hi-media-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D61FA93C10; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:21:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp1.hi-media-techno.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp1.backbone.hi-media-techno.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VbaOYQ2X-5Sd; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:21:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.hi-media-techno.com (unknown [192.168.27.17]) by smtp1.hi-media-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5805293BD7; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:21:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from DimIMac.local (89-158-241-175.rev.dartybox.com [89.158.241.175]) by mail1.hi-media-techno.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BDE73684B5; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:21:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by DimIMac.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id B8526B7A14D; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:21:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Dimitri Fontaine To: Greg Smith Cc: Scott Marlowe , A J , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: How much RAM is too much ? Organization: Hi-Media References: <819397.8724.qm@web120007.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <4C48D8D8.90503@2ndquadrant.com> User-Mail-Address: dfontaine@hi-media.com Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:21:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4C48D8D8.90503@2ndquadrant.com> (Greg Smith's message of "Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:48:40 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (darwin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/173 X-Sequence-Number: 35192 Greg Smith writes: > In news I don't consider unrelated, FreeBSD is now working on adding DTrace > support: > http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2010/06/dtrace-userland-project.html > which will give me yet another reason to consider deploying on that OS > instead of Linux. Well, there's debian/kFreeBSD too, which will be supported in the next debian stable release I think. http://release.debian.org/squeeze/arch_qualify.html Regards, -- dim