Re: {Spam} Will shared_buffers crash a server

What messages did you get in the Postgresql logs?

What other parameters have changed?

From: pgsql-performance-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-performance-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Qiang Wang
Sent: 29 April 2011 08:13
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: {Spam} [PERFORM] Will shared_buffers crash a server

Hei:

We have PostgreSQL 8.3 running on Debian Linux server. We built an
applicantion using PHP programming language and Postgres database. There
are appoximatly 150 users using the software constantly. We had some
performance degration before and after some studies we figured out we
will need to tune PostgreSQL configurations.

We have 10GB memory and we tuned PostgreSQL as follow:

- max_connection = 100

- effective_cache_size = 5GB

- shared_buffer = 2GB

- wal_buffer = 30MB

- work_mem = 50MB

However we suffered 2 times server crashes after tunning the
configuration. Does anyone have any idea how this can happen?

BR

Kevin Wang

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