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From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: requested shared memory size overflows size_t
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In response to Re: requested shared memory size overflows size_t  (Tom Wilcox <hungrytom@googlemail.com>)
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Tom Wilcox <hungrytom@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to get postgres to make use of the available 96GB
> RAM on a Windows 32-bit build?

I would try setting shared_memory to somewhere between 200MB and 1GB
and set effective_cache_size = 90GB or so.  The default behavior of
Windows was to use otherwise idle RAM for disk caching, last I
checked, anyway.

-Kevin

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