Tom Lane wrote: > Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I still cannot set PG's shared_buffers higher than 20000 (160 MB): > > > Shared memory pages, IIRC, are locked, meaning that they cannot be > > swapped. > > Is that really how it works on *BSD? That's great if so --- it's > exactly what Postgres wants --- but you'll pardon my paranoia about > assuming that any part of the universe works the way I want it to...
Sure does. FreeBSD has a sysctl option to enable it, BSD/OS and I bet NetBSD do it by default. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])