Sorry about that, I meant kbytes, not megs. My point being it's NOT measured in 8k blocks, like a lot of other settings. sorry for the mixup.
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Bricklen wrote: > scott.marlowe wrote: > > sort_mem might do with a small bump, especially if you're only handling a > > few connections at a time. Be careful, it's per sort, and measured in > > megs, so it's easy for folks to set it too high and make their machine > > start flushing too much kernel cache, which will slow down the other > > backends that have to go to disk for data. > <snip> > http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html > (under "Memory"), it says that sort_mem is set in KB. Is this document > wrong (or outdated)? > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ---------------------------(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
