| From: | Kurt Roeckx <Q(at)ping(dot)be> |
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| To: | Matthew Kirkwood <matthew(at)hairy(dot)beasts(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Pre-allocation of shared memory ... |
| Date: | 2003-06-14 19:44:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20030614194448.GA23483@ping.be |
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 08:32:40PM +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> > The trouble with this advice is that if I am an SA wanting to run a
> > DBMS server, I will want to run a kernel supplied by a vendor, not an
> > arbitrary kernel released by a developer, even one as respected as
> > Alan Cox.
>
> Like, say, Red Hat:
>
> $ ls -l /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 14 18:58 /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
> $ uname -a
> Linux stinky.hoopy.net 2.4.20-20.1.1995.2.2.nptl #1 Fri May 23 12:18:31 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I also got that /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory on a plain 2.4.21.
Kurt
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