On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote: > The Backend allocates gigs of memory (we've set sort_mem to 1 gig), and > then starts spilling out more Gigs of temporary data to the disk.
How much RAM is in the server? Remember that sort_mem is _per sort_, so if you have multiple sorts, it might allocate several multiples of the amount you set up. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
