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On Linux at least, the rest of your RAM will be used by the page cache which does a lot to make disk access efficient, and as much as possible bypassed entirely.


Yep. In other words, using more memory in user space is a sure way of slowding down the system. Specifically PostgreSQL is easily impacted by that as it keeps as little memory for itself as possible and delegates everything it can to the OS.




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