Re: Starting point for upsizing 8.3 -> 9.0 and 6GB -> 16GB

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Brian Ghidinelli <brian(at)pukkasoft(dot)com>
Cc: SF Postgres <sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Starting point for upsizing 8.3 -> 9.0 and 6GB -> 16GB
Date: 2011-01-21 05:37:49
Message-ID: 4D391BAD.2050306@agliodbs.com
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Sorry for the lack of response. Things have been busy.

> My thought is to increase shared_buffers to 6144MB, remove
> effective_cache_size and leave the rest?

Effective_cache_size most certainly exists on 9.0.

Also, that s_b seems a bit high for 16GB ram. I'd set it to 4GB.

> Also, we've enabled hot standby on the new 9 server (but don't yet have
> a slave). I noticed that there are ~230 16mb files in the archive
> directory. checkpoint_segments on that box is not set so I would think
> it would be some (much smaller) multiple of 3, no? The hot standby
> directory is basically the same size as the data dir (~5GB).

Archive directory or pg_xlog?

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