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Re: simple case using index on windows but not on linux


  • From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
  • To: simon godden <sgodden(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: simple case using index on windows but not on linux
  • Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:11:44 +0100
  • Message-id: <45237AD0(dot)50604(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>

simon godden wrote:
The only major difference between the hardware is that the windows
machine has 2gb RAM and a setting of 10000 shared memory pages,
whereas the linux machine has 756Mb RAM and a setting of 3000 shared
memory pages (max. shared memory allocation of 32Mb).  I can't see any
other differences in configuration.
You can increase the max shared memory size if you have root access. See

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/kernel-resources.html#SYSVIPC-PARAMETERS

Scroll down for Linux-specific instructions.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com



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