On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Mike C wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using table 17-2, Postgres Shared Memory Usage
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/kernel-resources.html)
> to calculate approximately how much memory the server will use. I'm
> using Postgres 9.1 on a Linux 2.6 (RHE
Mike C writes:
> Ok, that makes sense. With regards to work_mem, am I right in thinking
> the child processes only allocate enough memory to meet the task at
> hand, rather than the full 16M specified in the config file?
They only allocate what's needed ... but you have to keep in mind that
work_
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mike C writes:
>> I have been using table 17-2, Postgres Shared Memory Usage
>> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/kernel-resources.html)
>> to calculate approximately how much memory the server will use. I'm
>> using Postgres 9.1 on
Mike C writes:
> I have been using table 17-2, Postgres Shared Memory Usage
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/kernel-resources.html)
> to calculate approximately how much memory the server will use. I'm
> using Postgres 9.1 on a Linux 2.6 (RHEL 6) 64bit system, with 8GB RAM.
> Data
Hi,
I have been using table 17-2, Postgres Shared Memory Usage
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/kernel-resources.html)
to calculate approximately how much memory the server will use. I'm
using Postgres 9.1 on a Linux 2.6 (RHEL 6) 64bit system, with 8GB RAM.
Database is approximately
