| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Optimizer not using index on 120M row table |
| Date: | 2003-04-30 05:56:11 |
| Message-ID: | 20030430005611.R66185@flake.decibel.org |
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Plenty, see many past threads in pgsql-performance and other lists.
> There are strong reasons to think that you should let the kernel do the
> bulk of the caching work.
OK, anyone have any ideas on how to get FreeBSD to cache more than 300M?
:)
BTW, all the searches I did on this topic and FreeBSD resulted in
results saying I should set shared_buffers way high, so it seems FBSD
users are having pgsql do the caching instead of the OS.
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