On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> The Backend allocates gigs of memory (we've set sort_mem to 1 gig), and
> then starts spilling out more Gigs of temporary data to the disk.
How much RAM is in the server? Remember that sort_mem is _per sort_, so if
you have multiple sorts, it might allocate several multiples of the amount
you set up.
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