Re: Optimizer not using index on 120M row table - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Plenty, see many past threads in pgsql-performance and other lists.
> There are strong reasons to think that you should let the kernel do the
> bulk of the caching work.

OK, anyone have any ideas on how to get FreeBSD to cache more than 300M?
:)

BTW, all the searches I did on this topic and FreeBSD resulted in
results saying I should set shared_buffers way high, so it seems FBSD
users are having pgsql do the caching instead of the OS.
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