Re: Memory Question

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Benjamin Arai <barai(at)cs(dot)ucr(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Memory Question
Date: 2005-12-21 21:38:11
Message-ID: 43A9CB43.4060308@commandprompt.com
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Benjamin Arai wrote:

> A machine with 4GB of memory has the ability to allocate 2GB to
> postgres under kenel 2.6. Is the 2GB maximum the sum total of
> (work_mem, maitenance_work_mem, and shared_memory) or just
> shared_memory?

shared_memory and if I recall correctly that is adjustable but I don't
know for a fact.

Joshua D. Drake

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