Re: Default shared memory SGML mention

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > so by my computations, we need about 700k added to the shared buffer
> > cache area. The documentation says to add 512k, not 700k.
>
> This would depend on your -N setting.
>
> A little experimentation shows that the present multiplier for -B is
> about 8350 bytes and the multiplier for -N about 14580 bytes on my
> system (HPUX), which extrapolates to a fixed base of about 250K plus
> the -B and -N contributions. In reality I believe the computation
> is somewhat nonlinear, but that's probably close enough for starters.

I have updated the SGML sources to say for default shared memory values:

250 kB + 8192 * buffers or infinity

Of course, buffers is 2 * connections by default.

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