On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
[ shudder ] I can see the complaints now: "Merely starting up Postgres cut my overall system performance by a factor of 10!
Yeah, quite the scenario.
This can *not* be default behavior, and unfortunately that limits its value quite a lot.
Indeed. Maybe it's best just to document this stuff for the various OSes, and let the admins deal with configuring their machines. But you know, it might be a reasonable option switch, or something. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.NetBSD.org Make up enjoying your city life...produced by BIC CAMERA ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster