On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 17:31, Brian Hirt wrote: > On Aug 11, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Jason Coene wrote: > > > > I'm wondering why our PG server is using so little memory... The > > system has > > 2GB of memory, though only around 200MB of it are used. Is there a PG > > setting to force more memory usage towards the cache? Additionally, > > we use > > FreeBSD. I've heard that Linux may manage that memory better, any > > truth > > there? Sorry if I'm grabbing at straws here :) > > > > i don't know about freebsd, but linux is very aggressive about using > unused memory for disk cache. we have dedicated linux box running pg
Aggressive indeed.. I'm stuck with the version that has a tendency to swap out active processes rather than abandon disk cache -- it gets very annoying! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
