Re: Config help

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: BuyAndRead Test <test(at)buyandread(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Config help
Date: 2009-11-15 23:01:54
Message-ID: 4B008862.3000908@hogranch.com
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BuyAndRead Test wrote:
> This is a virtual server, so I could give it as much as 8 GB of memory if
> this will give much higher performance. What should shared_buffere be set to
> if I use 8 GB, as much as 4 GB?
>

I'd keep it around 1-2GB shared_buffers, and let the rest of the memory
be used as file system cache. postgres works quite happily that way.

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