scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> > > any chance of having some kind of max_total_sort_mem setting to keep
> > > machines out of swap storms, or would that be a nightmare to implement?
> >
> > I don't see any reasonable way to do that.
>
> I didn't think there was. just hoping... :-)
Someone asked for this in Copenhagen, and I said we can't see how to do
it. The only idea I had as to give the first requestor 50% of the
total, then a second query 50% of the remaining memory. Is that better
than what we have?
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