Re: [PERFORM] Postgres low end processing.

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 14:04, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 14:08, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > I can tell you from experience that you will get some odd behaviour, and even
> > connection failures, when Postgres is forced into swap by lack of memory.
>
> Why would you get a connection failure? And other than poor performance,
> why would you get "odd behavior" due to a lack of physical memory?

It would take so long for the "server" to respond that the client
might time out.

Of course, back in the day, we supported 70 people on a mainframe
w/ 1.6 MIPS and 8MB RAM.  FEPs and 3270 terminals helped, of course.

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