Re: Large PostgreSQL servers

From: Kjetil Nygård <polpot78(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Large PostgreSQL servers
Date: 2012-03-21 19:50:00
Message-ID: 1332359400.26378.10.camel@kjetil.kny.im
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On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 20:45 +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:31:08 +0100
> Kjetil Nygård <polpot78(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > We are considering to migrate some of our databases to PostgreSQL.
> >
> > We wonder if someone could give some hardware / configuration specs
> > for large PostgreSQL installations.
> > We're interested in:
> > - Number of CPUs
> > - Memory on the server
> > - shared_buffers
> > - Size of the database on disk
>
> I guess this is extremely depending on how big you database is ...

I know. But I just hope that someone will share with me some
quantitative numbers about their databases :-)

Our needs are not the greatest, but I'm curious about how much resources
PostgreSQL can consume in practice.

-kny

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