Re: Disadvantages on having too many page slots? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Apr 18, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Csaba Nagy wrote:
>> Other than hard disk space, are there any disadvantages on
>> having a large number of page slots?
>
> It's not using hard disk space, it's using shared memory, so you might
> want to adjust it to make that memory available for other purposes...

AFAIK, the FSM is written out during a clean shutdown... so from that
standpoint it does take disk space. But obviously the memory usage is
the only real concern.
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