Re: PG 8.3 and large shared buffer settings

From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>
To: Dan Sugalski <dan(at)sidhe(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PG 8.3 and large shared buffer settings
Date: 2009-09-25 13:33:09
Message-ID: 20090925133309.GE586@oak.highrise.ca
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* Dan Sugalski <dan(at)sidhe(dot)org> [090925 06:06]:

> I'll have to go check, but I think it does. This box hasn't actually hit
> swap since it started -- a good chunk of that RAM is used as
> semi-permanent disk cache but unfortunately the regular day-to-day use of
> this box (they won't let me have it as a dedicated DB-only machine. Go
> figure :) doing other stuff the cache tends to turn over pretty quickly.

All the more reason to find a way to use it all as shared buffers and
lock it into ram...

Oh, sorry, you expect the DB to play nice with everything else?

;-)

a.

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