Re: Mapping a database completly into Memory

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Mapping a database completly into Memory
Date: 2003-07-28 18:20:33
Message-ID: 20030728182033.GH6279@libertyrms.info
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:25:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> in the kernel's disk cache), thus wasting RAM. 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.

Plus, Postgres seems not to be very good at managing very large
buffer sets.

A

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