On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Anj Adu<fotogra...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can use upto 64G of RAM on a 32 bit RHEL 5/ Fedora 8 OS using the kernel > PAE extension.
And it's about 15% slower, and pgsql itself can only access ~2 or 3G shared and 2G per process. I routinely set shared_buffers to well over 3G on big machines, and have a few reporting queries that run truly huge work_mem settings. Really, there's not much reason to be running postgresql on 32 bit unix anymore, unless you're stuck using an ancient flavor or something. However, I was referring to Windows, where things are even worse, as the OS only sees 3Gigs total cause apparently it doesn't support PAE. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
