Re: Postgresql on SUN Server

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:05:07AM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote:
> Correct.  The max shared memory segment on 64 bit hardware is larger than
> any amount of RAM currently installable.  I'm pretty sure the limit is
> so large that the overhead of handling a large segment would become a
> problem long before you'd be able to hit a hard limit.

Given that, in my experience, 1 Gig of shared buffer space totally
tanked performance on Solaris 7, the limiti is already so large that
handling a large segment is a problem ;-)

A

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