Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> As for desktop heap, only 65KB of the service heap was allocated, or
>> about 80 bytes per connection. No danger of hitting limits in the
>> kernel memory pools either.
>
> As Dave said, it could be that the server version uses a lot less heap per
> process, which would be another good reason to use server rather than XP to
> run postgresql. But might there also be other differences, such as some
> third party (or non-core microsoft) product installed?
>
> Dave, on your XP test, was that on a clean XP with nothing like AV or any
> 3rd party stuff on it?
No, it was on my XP laptop which runs Sophos AV. I'm not convinced it's
AV related though - in my test code I proved pretty conclusively that
just initialising user32.dll ate the desktop heap.
/D
