Re: Memory on 32bit machine - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Memory on 32bit machine
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Msg-id 20080107104823.GA12212@svana.org
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In response to Memory on 32bit machine  (mljv@planwerk6.de)
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:32:26AM +0100, mljv@planwerk6.de wrote:
> So assuming i could choose between 4 GB RAM and 8 GB RAM and 32bit debian and
> 64bit debian. Which option would you choose?

Always go for more RAM, whether you use 64 or 32-bit is really
orthoginal to that, whatever memory you have left you will be
profitably used as diskcache. Postgres does not need to be able to
access the memory directly to be able to use it...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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>  -- John F Kennedy

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