From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Cc: | steffen(at)city-map(dot)de |
Subject: | Re: Upgrade to dual processor machine? |
Date: | 2002-11-12 20:05:44 |
Message-ID: | 200211121205.44452.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Heinrik,
"So, where do i find and change shmmax shmall settings ??
What should I put there?
What is a recommended value for shared buffers in postgresql.conf ?"
There is no "recommended value." You have to calculate this relatively:
1) Figure out how much RAM your server has available for PostgreSQL. For
example, I have one server on which I allocate 256 mb for Apache, 128 mb for
linux, and thus have 512mb available for Postgres.
2) Calculate out the memory settings to use 70% of that amount of Ram in
regular usage. Please beware that sort_mem is *not* shared, meaning that it
will be multiplied by the number of concurrent requests requiring sorting.
Thus, your calculation (in K) should be:
250K +
8.2K * shared_buffers +
14.2K * max_connections +
sort_mem * average number of requests per minute
=====================================
memory available to postgresql in K * 0.7
You will also have to set SHMMAX and SHMMALL to accept this memory allocation.
Since shmmax is set in bytes, then I generally feel safe making it:
1024 * 0.5 * memory available to postgresql in K
Setting them is done simply:
$ echo 134217728 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmall
$ echo 134217728 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
This is all taken from the postgresql documentation, with some experience:
http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/runtime.html
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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