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From: Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa@gmail.com>
To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: measuring shared memory usage on Windows
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:00:17 +0200
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Mark,

> And THAT is exactly the challenge of this thread: I am searching for
> > tools to check shared memory usage on Windows. ipcs is not available.
> > And neither Magnus nor Dave, both main contributors of the win32 port
> > of PostgreSQL, and both way wiser concerning Windows internas then me,
> > know of some :(



Would it help to have the postmaster report what the shared memory
> allocation is when it starts up? (this won't help with the activity
> stuff, but at least you would know for sure how *much* you have to use).
>
> That would be of no use ... I am quite sure that PostgreSQL allocates the
memory as specified; that is: as much as is written in postgresql.conf.

The interesting part is usage of shared memory through the workload.

Harald

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