> > kern.ipc.shm_use_phys) On this particular system, though, it's doing > > nothing except PG. 384 MB of RAM, I can give PG 160 of it, which leaves me > > with some 170 MB of idle RAM. > No, that's not idle RAM; that's buffer cache. (FreeBSD, like most > modern Unix operating systems, will use any spare physical memory
Oh, of course! How silly of me to forget that! You're entirely right. > It's not a sysctl, because those limits are settable per-process. > Use "ulimit -aS" to check the current (soft) limits, and "ulimit > -aH" to check the hard limits (beyond which the soft limits may > not be raised). Also see the getrlimit manpage. I shall. Thanks a lot! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
