Magnus Hagander 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? > > Dave, on your XP test, was that on a clean XP with nothing like AV or any > 3rd party stuff on it?
No, it was on my XP laptop which runs Sophos AV. I'm not convinced it's AV related though - in my test code I proved pretty conclusively that just initialising user32.dll ate the desktop heap. /D ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly