Re: [GENERAL] Largepages in Windows

2017-01-17 Thread Andrew Kerber
Oh, I can answer that. The owner of the postgreSQL executable must have the privilege to lock pages in memory. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Kerber writes: > > Does PostgreSQL 9.4 support large pages in windows? The setting is there > > in the postgresql.conf, but

Re: [GENERAL] Largepages in Windows

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Kerber writes: > Does PostgreSQL 9.4 support large pages in windows? The setting is there > in the postgresql.conf, but I cant tell if it is supported in windows? No, but there's a pending patch for that: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F5F1751

Re: [GENERAL] Largepages in Windows

2017-01-17 Thread Andrew Kerber
Thats what I needed, thank you. Windows generally calls them large pages, AIX also calls them large pages, really they are typically only called hugepages on Linux. On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 01/17/2017 07:20 AM, Andrew Kerber wrote: > >> Does PostgreSQL 9.4 supp

Re: [GENERAL] Largepages in Windows

2017-01-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/17/2017 07:20 AM, Andrew Kerber wrote: Does PostgreSQL 9.4 support large pages in windows? The setting is there in the postgresql.conf, but I cant tell if it is supported in windows? Are you talking about this?: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/runtime-config-resource.html hu

[GENERAL] Largepages in Windows

2017-01-17 Thread Andrew Kerber
Does PostgreSQL 9.4 support large pages in windows? The setting is there in the postgresql.conf, but I cant tell if it is supported in windows? -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'