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Himanshu Baweja

2005-05-26, 1:23 pm

why has been maintenance_work_mem
and work_mem been
restricted to 1gb... although i dont need it but kinda
server i am working on.... i wont mind
allocating...(32gb ram)....

#define MaxAllocSize ((Size) 0x3fffffff)
/* 1 gigabyte - 1 */

also for those who dont know the max. shared_buffer=
262143 (= 2^31 (INT_MAX) / 8192(size of each
buffer)...) comes to be around 2Gb...

although i would like to set this high also... but the
reasoning for its limit seems logical...

developers might want to increase these limits.. with
the kind-of 64 bits available now... might speed up
the things little bit ;)

Regards
Himanshu



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Tom Lane

2005-05-26, 8:23 pm

Himanshu Baweja < himanshubaweja@yahoo
.com> writes:
> why has been maintenance_work_mem
and work_mem been
> restricted to 1gb...


So as not to overflow on 32-bit machines.

regards, tom lane

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Himanshu Baweja

2005-05-26, 8:23 pm

Tom Lane writes:
>Himanshu Baweja writes:
[color=darkred]
>So as not to overflow on 32-bit machines.


then why not add a check during configure(before compiling) to check if its a 32 or 64 bit machine.... in the past we have seen servers like DEC and Sun... which although 32 bit used to support much more memory.... although i can just give suggestion... i
ts upto u to see whts good and whts not...
by the way i have started to like postgres.. it really roks... thx to all the developers :)

Regards
Himanshu


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