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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] Disadvantages on having too many page slots?
From:       Jim Nasby <decibel () decibel ! org>
Date:       2007-04-30 12:42:44
Message-ID: 993EB07C-F6E1-4816-912F-6CEA5D218568 () decibel ! org
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On Apr 18, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Csaba Nagy wrote:
>> Other than hard disk space, are there any disadvantages on
>> having a large number of page slots?
>
> It's not using hard disk space, it's using shared memory, so you might
> want to adjust it to make that memory available for other purposes...

AFAIK, the FSM is written out during a clean shutdown... so from that  
standpoint it does take disk space. But obviously the memory usage is  
the only real concern.
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
EnterpriseDB      http://enterprisedb.com      512.569.9461 (cell)



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