X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E4C52934 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:04:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68030-06 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:04:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F9F52937 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:04:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([70.108.94.185]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IHQ00KZSFVRG2T4@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:04:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D58F61BC7E for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:04:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (osgiliath [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18652-03 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:04:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0C4006000AB; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:04:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:04:39 -0400 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: Postgresql on an AMD64 machine In-reply-to: <42A605E8.8040607@jobflash.com> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Message-id: <20050607210438.GF19670@mathom.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 53 FF 38 00 E7 DD 0A 9C 84 52 84 C5 EE DF 7C 88 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at mathom.us References: <1118080420.1644.23.camel@penguin1> <42A5F7B6.20502@sun.com> <42A5FB70.8090807@jobflash.com> <42A6014C.30108@sun.com> <42A605E8.8040607@jobflash.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.037 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200506/151 X-Sequence-Number: 12788 On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:39:04PM -0700, Tom Arthurs wrote: >Yes, shared buffers in postgres are not used for caching That begs the question of what they are used for. :) Mike Stone