Re: Postgresql on SUN Server

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> 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 ;-)

I wonder if that's a performance issue with Solaris and shared memory that
isn't a problem with BSD or Linux on Sparc Hardware?