Re: How much ram is too much

On 10-Jun-07, at 11:11 PM, Jim Nasby wrote:

> On Jun 8, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>> Is it possible that providing 128G of ram is too much ? Will other  
>> systems in the server bottleneck ?
>
> Providing to what? PostgreSQL? The OS? My bet is that you'll run  
> into issues with how shared_buffers are managed if you actually try  
> and set them to anything remotely close to 128GB.

Well, we'd give 25% of it to postgres, and the rest to the OS.

What is it specifically you are referring to ?

Dave
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