Re: Postgres low end processing.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stef <svb(at)ucs(dot)co(dot)za>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres low end processing.
Date: 2003-10-03 16:32:00
Message-ID: 26554.1065198720@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stef <svb(at)ucs(dot)co(dot)za> writes:
> Crawling is ok. Won't differ much from normal operation on a machine
> like that. Any tips on how to achieve the most diminutive vmem an
> conf settings?

The out-of-the-box settings are already pretty diminutive on current
releases :-(. In 7.4 you'd likely want to knock back shared_buffers
and max_connections, and maybe the fsm settings if the database is going
to be tiny.

> I tried to figure this out from the docs, and played
> around with backend/storage , but I'm not really winning.

What exactly is failing? And what's the platform, anyway?

regards, tom lane

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