From: bofh (goodb0fhgmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2008 - 11:52:35 CDT

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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Niall O'Higgins <niallounworkable.org>wrote:

> Oh, also note that OpenBSD has some limit on how much memory an
> individual process can map, so keep that in mind. While the
> kernel may be able to use all 128G of memory in your machine,
> each PostgreSQL backend process may only be able to use a much
> smaller chunk of it.

Ah, great! Yes, this is the question I was trying to ask - what is the
largest available chunk of memory available to any one process? Any special
sysctl stuff I would need to set? And obviously I'll need to look at
login.conf too.

Thanks!

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