tmpfs and postgres memory

From: Anj Adu <fotographs(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: tmpfs and postgres memory
Date: 2010-04-26 23:24:14
Message-ID: q2of2fd819a1004261624u985929a5s6d9250f9db77943b@mail.gmail.com
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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

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