Josh Berkus wrote: > > > I think the difficulty is figuring out what to get the existing > > workers to give us some memory when a new one comes along. You want > > the first worker to potentially use ALL the memory... until worker #2 > > arrives. > > Yeah, doing this would mean that you couldn't give worker #1 all the > memory, because on most OSes it can't release the memory even if it > wants to.
FYI, what normally happens in this case is that the memory is pushed to swap by the kernel and never paged in from swap. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
