From: Jan de Visser <jdevisser@digitalfairway.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Question about memory allocations
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:24:55 -0400
Message-ID: <200704131624.55903.jdevisser@digitalfairway.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461FD1C1.8040502@mochima.com>
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<461FD1C1.8040502@mochima.com>
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:53:53 Carlos Moreno wrote:
> How does PG take advantage of the available memory? I mean, if I have a
> machine with, say, 4 or 8GB of memory, how will those GBs would end
> up being used? They just do?? (I mean, I would find that a vaild
> answer;
On linux the filesystem cache will gobble them up, which means indirectly
pgsql profits as well (assuming no other apps poison the fs cache).
jan
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