Bruce,
Is there remarks along these lines in the performance turning section of
the docs? Based on what's coming out of this it would seem that
stressing the importance of leaving a notable (rule of thumb here?)
amount for general OS/kernel needs is pretty important.
Greg
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 09:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> (This is, BTW, one of the reasons for discouraging people from pushing
> Postgres' shared buffer cache up to a large fraction of total RAM;
> starving the kernel of disk buffers is just plain not a good idea.)