Listaccount wrote:
Hello
I have been trapped by the advice from the manual to use "sysctl -w
vm.overcommit_memory=2" when using Linux (see 16.4.3. Linux Memory
Overcommit). This value should only be used when PostgreSQL is the only
Application running on the machine in question. It should be
Greg Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > exist for disk controller caches. Consumer-grade IDE drives are
> >!particularly likely to have write-back caches that will not survive a
> >!power failure. To check write caching on Linux use
> >!hdparm -I; it
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:
exist for disk controller caches. Consumer-grade IDE drives are
!particularly likely to have write-back caches that will not survive a
!power failure. To check write caching on Linux use
!hdparm -I; it is enabled if there is a * next
!
I thought we had the disk write cache control documented for popular
operating systems, but I see we don't so I added the following patch to
our documentation.
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Greg Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Tomasz Ostrowski wro
