X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0A8D7696 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 06:45:24 -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 45892-01 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:45:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk (mail.metronet.co.uk [213.162.97.75]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C012FD7672 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 06:45:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mainbox.archonet.com (84-51-143-99.archon037.adsl.metronet.co.uk [84.51.143.99]) by smtp.metronet.co.uk (MetroNet Mail) with ESMTP id D82BE40BEEE; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:45:18 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mainbox.archonet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724BA15F1D; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:43:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from mainbox.archonet.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mainbox [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26140-10; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:42:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.17] (client17.office.archonet.com [192.168.1.17]) by mainbox.archonet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA7115F1C; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:42:59 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <43181EA3.3010302@archonet.com> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:42:59 +0100 From: Richard Huxton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ricardo Humphreys Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Avoid using swap in a cluster References: <3aa4c10905090118046e81b107@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3aa4c10905090118046e81b107@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.057 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.007, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200509/46 X-Sequence-Number: 14354 Ricardo Humphreys wrote: > Hi all. > In a cluster, is there any way to use the main memory of the other nodes > instead of the swap? If I have a query with many sub-queries and a lot of > data, I can easily fill all the memory in a node. The point is: is there any > way to continue using the main memory from other nodes in the same query > instead of the swap? I don't know of any clustered version of PG that can spread queries over multiple machines. Can I ask what you are using? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd