Re: [GENERAL] recommendations for reducing mem usage on local dev machine

2007-04-19 Thread Anton Melser
On 19/04/07, Andrej Ricnik-Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/15/07, Anton Melser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it might even make more sense), and with KDE/Gnome these days, I don't think there is much difference with XP... Of course you could use fluxbox, twm or something else less bloated ... my

Re: [GENERAL] recommendations for reducing mem usage on local dev machine

2007-04-18 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 4/15/07, Anton Melser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it might even make more sense), and with KDE/Gnome these days, I don't think there is much difference with XP... Of course you could use fluxbox, twm or something else less bloated ... my window-manager has a 2MB foot-print. Or use vim instead

[GENERAL] recommendations for reducing mem usage on local dev machine

2007-04-14 Thread Anton Melser
Hi, I am stuck for the moment with 1gig of ram on a win xp machine running a 8.2.3 postgres. With the java website taking 300meg, eclipse taking 250meg+, firefox 150meg+, all of which are going to be nasty to reduce the mem usage of, I am looking at reducing postgres usage (the java website runs

Re: [GENERAL] recommendations for reducing mem usage on local dev machine

2007-04-14 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2007-04-14 13:27:33 +0200: Hi, I am stuck for the moment with 1gig of ram on a win xp machine running a 8.2.3 postgres. With the java website taking 300meg, how is it going to scale? -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man.

Re: [GENERAL] recommendations for reducing mem usage on local dev machine

2007-04-14 Thread Anton Melser
On 14/04/07, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2007-04-14 13:27:33 +0200: Hi, I am stuck for the moment with 1gig of ram on a win xp machine running a 8.2.3 postgres. With the java website taking 300meg, how is it going to scale? It's not! The site is already

Re: [GENERAL] recommendations for reducing mem usage on local dev machine

2007-04-14 Thread Tom Lane
Anton Melser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am stuck for the moment with 1gig of ram on a win xp machine running a 8.2.3 postgres. With the java website taking 300meg, eclipse taking 250meg+, firefox 150meg+, all of which are going to be nasty to reduce the mem usage of, I am looking at reducing

Re: [GENERAL] recommendations for reducing mem usage on local dev machine

2007-04-14 Thread Anton Melser
It's fairly likely that that report is misleading: most Unix versions of top report Postgres' shared memory as belonging to *each* backend, and I'll bet taskmanager is doing the same thing. You could reduce shared memory usage (cut shared_buffers in particular), which might make the reported