Re: Offering tuned config files

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>
Cc: Daniel Kalchev <daniel(at)digsys(dot)bg>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Offering tuned config files
Date: 2003-02-14 16:55:59
Message-ID: 1045241758.51125.4.camel@jester
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On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 07:41, Manfred Koizar wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:24:23 +0200, Daniel Kalchev <daniel(at)digsys(dot)bg>
> wrote:
> >The default [cache] on BSD systems is 10% of the total RAM, so on a 256MB machine this
> >would be ~26MB or effective_cache_size = 32000.
>
> I was a bit too Linux-minded, where every peace of memory not needed
> for anything else can be used as cache. Thanks for the clarification.
> And sorry for my ignorance.

I think you're getting the two confused. I'm not sure about linux, but
on BSD (FreeBSD) the cache and buffer are mostly unrelated.

Cache: number of pages used for VM-level disk caching

Buf: number of pages used for BIO-level disk caching
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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>

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