Re: Mapping a database completly into Memory

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Mapping a database completly into Memory
Date: 2003-07-28 16:50:36
Message-ID: 200307280950.36076.josh@agliodbs.com
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Tom,

> If we had a portable way
> of preventing the kernel from caching the same page, it would make more
> sense to run with large shared_buffers.

Really? I thought we wanted to move the other way ... that is, if we could
get over the portability issues, eliminate shared_buffers entirely and rely
completely on the OS cache.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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