Re: Tsearch2 performance on big database

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Rick Jansen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a *fast* solution to search thru ~ 4 million records of book
> descriptions. I've installed PostgreSQL 8.0.1 on a dual opteron server with
> 8G of memory, running Linux 2.6. I haven't done a lot of tuning on PostgreSQL
> itself, but here's the settings I have changed so far:
>
> shared_buffers = 2000 (anything much bigger says the kernel doesnt allow it,
> still have to look into that)

use something like
echo "150000000" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
to increase shared memory. In your case you could dedicate much more
memory.

Regards,
Oleg
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