Re: about shared_buffer and kernel.shmmax

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: about shared_buffer and kernel.shmmax
Date: 2012-06-21 07:20:45
Message-ID: 4FE2CB4D.4000108@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 06/20/2012 11:38 PM, wangqi wrote:
> shared_buffer maximum limit is ?
> I set shared_buffer more than 250G, I got error at startup pg.

There's not much evidence that values larger than 16GB are really
productive. You really do not want put all their memory in just that
one place.

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