From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Anj Adu <fotographs@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: tmpfs and postgres memory
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:56:56 -0400
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Anj Adu <fotographs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a 16G box and tmpfs is configured to use 8G for tmpfs .
>
> Is a lot of memory being wasted that can be used for Postgres ? (I am
> not seeing any performance issues, but I am not clear how Linux uses
> the tmpfs and how Postgres would be affected by the reduction in
> memory)
What does the output of "free -m" look like when the database is as
heavily used as it typically gets?
...Robert
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