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From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Memory and/or cache issues?
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Msg-id 20060506003338.GD99570@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Memory and/or cache issues?  (Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>)
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On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:09:53PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 06:33:33PM +0200, G?briel ?kos wrote:
> >if postgres tries to allocate more memory (because of settings enable
> >it) than the kernel itself is configured for, then you will see similar
> >error messages.
>
> If you're talking about the shared memory limits, postgres will bomb out
> fairly quickly in that case, IIRC.

More importantly I don't think it would result in trying to allocate 10
TB or whatever that huge number was.
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