Re: Postgres low end processing.

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:52, Stef wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:32:00 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> => What exactly is failing?  And what's the platform, anyway?
>
> Nothing is really failing atm, except the funds for better
> hardware. JBOSS and some other servers need to be
> run on these machines, along with linux, which will be
> a minimal RH >= 7.2 with kernel 2.4.21
> (Any better suggestions here?)
>
> In this case, whatever is the least amount of memory
> postgres can run on, is what is needed. So this is still
> a kind of feasibility study. Of course, it will still be thoroughly
> tested, if it turns out to be possible. (Which I know it is, but not how)

JBOSS, PostgreSQL & 2.4.21 all on a computer w/ 8MB RAM?  A 486 or
*very* low end Pentium?

It'll thrash (in the literal sense) the page files.  *No* work
will get done.

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