[OSM-talk] Building a tile-server

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 1. Jul 2020, at 23:26, Paul Norman via talk <talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> In general, work_mem=128GB is good with most styles.



Paul, he wrote he had 32GB of RAM, should one assign more work_mem than there physically is on the machine?

I am asking because I thought that the value of work_mem could be used multiple times and the sum should not exceed the actual RAM, but maybe this isn’t how it works? 

Cheers Martin