Re: [PERFORM] tmpfs and postgres memory

2010-04-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Anj Adu wrote: > I have a 16G box and tmpfs is configured to use 8G for tmpfs . > > Is a lot of memory being wasted that can be used for Postgres ? (I am > not seeing any performance issues, but I am not clear how Linux uses > the tmpfs and how Postgres would be af

Re: [PERFORM] tmpfs and postgres memory

2010-04-26 Thread Greg Spiegelberg
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Anj Adu wrote: > I have a 16G box and tmpfs is configured to use 8G for tmpfs . > > Is a lot of memory being wasted that can be used for Postgres ? (I am > not seeing any performance issues, but I am not clear how Linux uses > the tmpfs and how Postgres would be af

[PERFORM] tmpfs and postgres memory

2010-04-26 Thread Anj Adu
I have a 16G box and tmpfs is configured to use 8G for tmpfs . Is a lot of memory being wasted that can be used for Postgres ? (I am not seeing any performance issues, but I am not clear how Linux uses the tmpfs and how Postgres would be affected by the reduction in memory) Sriram -- Sent via p