Re: Max shared_buffers - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Andrej Ricnik-Bay
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In response to Re: Max shared_buffers  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On 04/04/2008, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not entirely true.  on 32 bit OS / software, the limit is just under 2
>  Gig.

Where do you get that figure from?

There's an architectural (theoretical) limitation of RAM at 4GB,
but with the PAE (that pretty much any CPU since the Pentium Pro
offers) one can happily address 64GB on 32-bit.

Or are you talking about some Postgres limitation?


Cheers,
Andrej

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