Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 17:28, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> perhaps we could have some simple rule based only on what the kernel
>>> knows about the shmem block, like "dump shmem if it's no more than 1GB".
>> Not sure what knobs we have available, but would there be any value in
>> trying to dump the FIRST 1GB?
> So such knob that I can find. Basically, we pick a combination of the flags at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680519(v=VS.85).aspx
Yeah, I thought I was probably asking for something that couldn't
practically be supported. Let's try it as-is for a few releases
and see how it goes.
regards, tom lane