Tom, > If we had a portable way > of preventing the kernel from caching the same page, it would make more > sense to run with large shared_buffers.
Really? I thought we wanted to move the other way ... that is, if we could get over the portability issues, eliminate shared_buffers entirely and rely completely on the OS cache. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend