Re: Memory on 32bit machine

Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 11:48 schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:32:26AM +0100, mljv@planwerk6.de wrote:
> > So assuming i could choose between 4 GB RAM and 8 GB RAM and 32bit debian
> > and 64bit debian. Which option would you choose?
>
> Always go for more RAM, whether you use 64 or 32-bit is really
> orthoginal to that, whatever memory you have left you will be
> profitably used as diskcache. Postgres does not need to be able to
> access the memory directly to be able to use it...

thanks a lot for this immediate reply and crystal clear answer. I will go for
more RAM now.

kind regards,
janning