Kris, > > 3.0G > > Well there you go then..you're trying to access a file that is larger > than RAM, so naturally you won't be able to fit it all in RAM, and > with 1GB less RAM in your system you'll spend much more time reading > bits of it from disk and later throwing them away.
i know a bit of databases, and assume you do as well, so i am hesative to question your explanation but: the importing of a DB-file ( being tab-sep-copies or SQL dumps ) is a transformation process and does not require all data to be in core ( is that the right terminology? ) at the same moment. it transform x Gigs of input to y Gigs of output. i don't see why the 2GB machine would suffer this hard. unless the 3GB-file is one big table. is it MIguel? then it might be a postgresql hitch. i will have to wait on the .conf files, Miguel has not claimed them to be identical, so i am curious. regards, usleep > > Kris > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"