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From W.P.
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Responses Re: How can I set up Postgres to use given amount of RAM?  (Zahid Rahman <zahidr1000@gmail.com>)
Re: How can I set up Postgres to use given amount of RAM?  (Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com>)
Sv: How can I set up Postgres to use given amount of RAM?  (Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com>)
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"How can I set up Postgres to use given amount of RAM?"

I have now laptop with 8GB of RAM, i can see Linux uses no more than 2-3GB.

So my question is how to FORCE PostgreSQL

use let's say 2-4Ghow to B of RAM for caching tables  I run queries on?

As I can see disk actity running queries.


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