"Marc Mamin" <M(dot)Mamin(at)intershop(dot)de> writes:
> We have the oppotunity to benchmark our application on a large server. I
> have to prepare the Postgres configuration and I'd appreciate some
> comments on it as I am not experienced with servers of such a scale.
> Moreover the configuration should be fail-proof as I won't be able to
> attend the tests.
I really think that's a recipe for disaster. Even on a regular machine you
need to treat tuning as an on-going feedback process. There's no such thing as
a fail-proof configuration since every application is different.
On an exotic machine like this you're going to run into unique problems that
nobody here can anticipate with certainty.
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Gregory Stark
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