Re: Shared buffers, Sort memory, Effective Cache Size

From: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>
To: Qing Zhao <qzhao(at)supplyfx(dot)com>
Cc: Frédéric Robinet <Fr(at)Mims(dot)be>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Shared buffers, Sort memory, Effective Cache Size
Date: 2004-04-27 12:12:20
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:01:30 -0700, Qing Zhao <qzhao(at)supplyfx(dot)com>
wrote:
>I have recently configured my PG7.3 on a G5 (8GB RAM) with
>shmmax set to 512MB and shared_buffer=50000, sort_mem=4096
>and effective cache size = 10000. It seems working great so far but
>I am wondering if I should make effctive cache size larger myself.

Yes, much larger! And while you are at it make shared_buffers smaller.

Servus
Manfred

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