Hiya. I've installed Postgres 7.2 on a dedicated FreeBSD system with 384
MB RAM. Because the system will be doing nothing except PG, I'd like to
dump as much memory as possible into PG's shared memory.
I rebuilt the kernel with very large limits: 330 MB on the MAXDSIZ and
DFLDSIZ, and 330 MB for
intend to use 1 for the application, and I'll only need 1-2 for my own
admin use, so a setting of 3 should work for my needs. Is there a
technical reason it should be higher?
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
>
> > Hiya. I've
> > kern.ipc.shm_use_phys) On this particular system, though, it's doing
> > nothing except PG. 384 MB of RAM, I can give PG 160 of it, which leaves me
> > with some 170 MB of idle RAM.
> No, that's not idle RAM; that's buffer cache. (FreeBSD, like most
> modern Unix operating systems, will use a
