Re: Extreme high load averages

On 5 Jul 2003 at 22:54, Martin Foster wrote:
> What I would like to know is. Why? The kernel has been compiled to
> handle the number of concurrent connections, the server may not be the
> best, but it should be able to handle the requests: PIII 1Ghz, 1GB
> SDRAM, 2 IDE 20GB drives.
>
> I have changed settings to take advantage of the memory. So the
> following settings are of interest:
> shared_buffers = 16384
> wal_buffers = 256
> sort_mem = 16384
> vacuum_mem = 32768

As somebody else has already pointed out, your sort_mem is bit too high
than required. Try lowering it.

Secondly did you tune effective_cache_size?

HTH
Bye
Shridhar

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