On May 23, 2005, at 7:29 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
Vivek Khera wrote this message on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 17:17 -0400:
Cool... So what would you recommend telling an application like
Postgres what the cache size is? All of RAM? That seems unlikely
given much of the ram is used for other t
On Mon, 23 May 2005, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
Sven Willenberger wrote this message on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:58 -0400:
We are running a PostgreSQL server (8.0.3) on a dual opteron system with
8G of RAM. If I interpret top and vfs.hibufspace correctly (which show
values of 215MB and 225771520 (w
Vivek Khera wrote this message on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 17:17 -0400:
> On May 23, 2005, at 1:44 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>
> >This is incorrect... FreeBSD merged the vm and buf systems a while
> >back,
> >so all of memory is used as a disk cache.. The buf cache is still
> >used
> >for file
On May 23, 2005, at 1:44 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
This is incorrect... FreeBSD merged the vm and buf systems a while
back,
so all of memory is used as a disk cache.. The buf cache is still
used
for filesystem meta data (and for pending writes of files, but
those buf's
reference the o
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:44 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Sven Willenberger wrote this message on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:58 -0400:
> > We are running a PostgreSQL server (8.0.3) on a dual opteron system with
> > 8G of RAM. If I interpret top and vfs.hibufspace correctly (which show
> > values o
Sven Willenberger wrote this message on Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:58 -0400:
> We are running a PostgreSQL server (8.0.3) on a dual opteron system with
> 8G of RAM. If I interpret top and vfs.hibufspace correctly (which show
> values of 215MB and 225771520 (which equals 215MB) respectively. My
> under
On May 23, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Sven Willenberger wrote:
We are running a PostgreSQL server (8.0.3) on a dual opteron system
with
8G of RAM. If I interpret top and vfs.hibufspace correctly (which show
values of 215MB and 225771520 (which equals 215MB) respectively. My
understanding from having
We are running a PostgreSQL server (8.0.3) on a dual opteron system with
8G of RAM. If I interpret top and vfs.hibufspace correctly (which show
values of 215MB and 225771520 (which equals 215MB) respectively. My
understanding from having searched the archives is that this is the
value that is used