Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Memory Matters

Database performance and hardware selection are complicated topics, and a great deal has been written on that topic over the years by many very smart people, like Greg Smith, who wrote a whole book about PostgreSQL performance.  In many cases, the answers to performance questions require deep understanding of software and hardware characteristics and careful study and planning.

But sometimes the explanation is something very simple, such as "you don't have enough memory".