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From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: How much ram is too much
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In response to How much ram is too much  (Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>)
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On Jun 8, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
> Is it possible that providing 128G of ram is too much ? Will other
> systems in the server bottleneck ?

Providing to what? PostgreSQL? The OS? My bet is that you'll run into
issues with how shared_buffers are managed if you actually try and
set them to anything remotely close to 128GB.
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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