On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:09:55AM -0400, Alex Turner wrote: > Just to play devils advocate here for as second, but if we have an algorithm > that is substational better than just plain old LRU, which is what I believe > the kernel is going to use to cache pages (I'm no kernel hacker), then why > don't we apply that and have a significantly larger page cache a la Oracle?
There have (AFAIK) been reports of setting huge amounts of shared_buffers (close to the total amount of RAM) performing much better in 8.1 than in earlier versions, so this might actually be okay these days. I haven't heard of anybody reporting increase setting such values, though. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
