| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | David Blood <davidjblood(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: sort mem size |
| Date: | 2002-02-28 04:11:49 |
| Message-ID: | 200202280411.g1S4Bnf23551@candle.pha.pa.us |
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David Blood wrote:
> Does any one have a good idea of what the sort memory is best set at. I
> have read Bruce suggestions but they are vague and just say make it
> bigger till you don?t have page ins. I wonder if there is someone who
> knows what a good setting is for a Db with tables that are over 700 MB
> and total DB size of 6GB + ? The Machine has 2Gb ram with a shrmax
> setting of 1800000000 about 1.6 gb
If there was a simple answer, I would have given one in the article.
Does anyone know a good value?
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