Re: [PERFORM] Increasing RAM for more than 4 Gb. using postgresql

2005-01-16 Thread Josh Berkus
William, > The theshold for using PAE is actually far lower than 4GB. 4GB is the > total memory address space -- split that in half for 2GB for userspace, > 2GB for kernel. The OS cache resides in kernel space -- after you take > alway the memory allocation for devices, you're left with a window o

Re: [PERFORM] Increasing RAM for more than 4 Gb. using postgresql

2005-01-16 Thread amrit
> The theshold for using PAE is actually far lower than 4GB. 4GB is the > total memory address space -- split that in half for 2GB for userspace, > 2GB for kernel. The OS cache resides in kernel space -- after you take > alway the memory allocation for devices, you're left with a window of > rough