On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:48:16PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>
> > sort_mem = 65536 # min 32
>
> I think this is way too high. That's the amount of memory _each sort
> operation_ can take. A single query can spawn several sort
> operations.
>
> I have 16 Gig on my Sun boxes, and I only have that set to 2048.
Thanks for the advice. I thought I had seen examples of people using 32K.
Will lower it to 4096 then.