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.

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