Well, I didn't set sort_mem, which (does it?) means it defaults to 512.
There are 2 gigs of RAM on the box and one gig of swap space. Should I have
set it to some different value? Thanks for your reply.
Kevin
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From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 4:31 AM
To: Kevin Bartz
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; 'Manfred Koizar'
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Out of swap space & memory
On Aug 6, 2004, at 10:32 PM, Kevin Bartz wrote:
>
> -- de-dup the table
> MS SQL Server, with as much RAM and less clock speed, de-dups the
> table in
> about six minutes. The de-duped version has about 26,000,000 rows. The
> final
> line is where Postgres gobbles up all my swap and RAM and then conks
> out
> completely.
What is your sort_mem set to and how much ram is on the box?
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