Re: Windows shared_buffers limitations

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> One thing which comes to mind is that it's possible Windows is swapping out
> shared memory making having large shared memory segments dangerous on that
> front.

This is a hazard on most Unixen as well.  Windows may just be a bit more
aggressive about it.  Now that larger shared memory blocks are usually
a win, we need to put more effort into telling the kernel to lock the
shared memory block into RAM ...
        regards, tom lane