Re: Linux max on shared buffers? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: Linux max on shared buffers?
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Msg-id 3D3D4398.A064BF13@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Linux max on shared buffers?  (Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>)
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Re: Linux max on shared buffers?
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Curt Sampson wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > I have some more wrinkles to iron out as well. We can hold blocks of
> > hundreds of different files in our buffer cache without the need to keep
> > an open file descriptor...
>
> As you can with mmap as well. The mapping remains after the file
> descriptor is closed.

No resource limit on that? So my 200 backends all map some random
16,000 blocks from 400 files and the kernel jiggles with it like
it's never did anything else?


Jan

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