"Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the recurring debate of threading vs. forking, I was giving it a fwe > thoughts a few days ago, particularly with concern to Linux's memory model. > > On IA32 platforms with over 4 gigs of memory, any one process can only > "see" up to 3 or 4 gigs of that. Having each postmaster fork off as a new > process obviously would allow a person to utilize very copious quantities of > memory, assuming that (a) they were dealing with concurrent PG sessions, and > (b) PG had reason to use the memory. > > I'm not entirely clear on threading in Linux - would it provide the same > benefits, or would it suddenly lock you into a 3-gig memory space?
Linux threads are basically processes that share the same VM space, so you'd be limited to 3GB or whatever, since that's what a VM space can "see". -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: 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
