Re: [GENERAL] Maxium Share Memory in Debian 64bit

2012-02-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Prashant Bharucha wrote: > > Hello All > > Could you please help to figure out how much maxium memory can allocated in > Shared Memory on Debian 64 bit OS ? With appropriate shm settings, you can easily set it high enough to cause problems with swapping etc. I'

Re: [GENERAL] Maxium Share Memory in Debian 64bit

2012-02-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/24/12 11:41 AM, Prashant Bharucha wrote: Hello All Could you please help to figure out how much maxium memory can allocated in Shared Memory on Debian 64 bit OS ? I rarely set shared_buffers over about 2GB even on machines with 48GB or more ram. its a case of diminishing returns, a