On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 04:00:04AM -0800, Trevor Talbot wrote:
> On 11/12/07, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:17:13PM -0800, Trevor Talbot wrote:
>
> > > As for desktop heap, only 65KB of the service heap was allocated, or
> > > about 80 bytes per connection. No danger of hitting limits in the
> > > kernel memory pools either.
> >
> > As Dave said, it could be that the server version uses a lot less heap per
> > process, which would be another good reason to use server rather than XP to
> > run postgresql. But might there also be other differences, such as some
> > third party (or non-core microsoft) product installed?
>
> The XP SP2 machine I tried 8.2.5 on was chewing up about 3.1KB per
> process, and it's not running anything invasive (AV or otherwise).
Then I think we can claim that Server is just better than Workstation in
this regard. Maybe we should put that in the FAQ?
> I've been trying to find out exactly what's in the desktop heap, but I
> haven't had much luck so far. Apparently Microsoft changed the
> implementation after Win2000, and didn't bother teaching the public
> debugging tools about it. The details just don't seem to exist
> anymore :(
Yeah, there are very little docs at all about the desktop heap AFAICT.
//Magnus