Re: Maxium Share Memory in Debian 64bit - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Maxium Share Memory in Debian 64bit
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In response to Maxium Share Memory in Debian 64bit  (Prashant Bharucha <prashantbharucha@yahoo.ca>)
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Prashant Bharucha
<prashantbharucha@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> Hello All
>
> Could you please help to figure out how much maxium memory can allocated in Shared Memory on Debian 64 bit OS ?

With appropriate shm settings, you can easily set it high enough to
cause problems with swapping etc.  I've successfully allocated 24G in
testing on a machiine with 128G.  However, in all the testing I did 8G
was the point where we no longer got any performance increase.

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