Re: Mapping a database completly into Memory - Mailing list pgsql-performance

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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