On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:48 -0400, Ron Peacetree wrote: > > I have some indications from private tests that very high memory settings > >may actually hinder performance of the sorts, though I cannot explain that > >and wonder whether it is the performance tests themselves that have issues. > > > Hmmm. Are you talking about amounts so high that you are throwing the OS > into paging and swapping thrash behavior? If not, then the above is weird.
Thanks for your thoughts. I'll retest, on the assumption that there is a benefit, but there's something wrong with my earlier tests. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly