Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5EF6504EE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:18:28 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75927-08-2 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:18:24 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from skynet.simkin.ca (skynet.simkin.ca [72.51.27.117]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571E46503C8 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:18:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from charon.medialogik.com (S0106000c6eb33e73.vc.shawcable.net [70.79.155.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skynet.simkin.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8F84A64 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:18:16 -0800 (PST) From: Alan Hodgson Organization: Simkin Network Consulting To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Memory Allocation Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:18:12 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <011101c95013$b6fca0a0$24f5e1e0$@hansen@brightbuilders.com> In-Reply-To: <011101c95013$b6fca0a0$24f5e1e0$@hansen@brightbuilders.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811261418.12286@hal.medialogik.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200811/272 X-Sequence-Number: 32003 On Wednesday 26 November 2008, "Ryan Hansen" wrote: > This may be more of a Linux question than a PG question, but I'm > wondering if any of you have successfully allocated more than 8 GB of > memory to PG before. > CentOS 5, 24GB shared_buffers on one server here. No problems. -- Alan