On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Joel Reymont <joelr1(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'm running pgsql on an m1.large EC2 instance with 7.5gb available memory.
>
> The free command shows 7gb of free+cached. My understand from the docs is that I should dedicate 1.75gb to shared_buffers (25%) and set effective_cache_size to 7gb.
Sounds like a reasonable starting point. You could certainly fiddle
around a bit - especially with shared_buffers - to see if some other
setting works better, but that should be in the ballpark.
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