Re: Help how to tune-up my Database

From: Bricklen <bricklen-rem(at)yahoo(dot)comz>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help how to tune-up my Database
Date: 2004-05-07 16:47:09
Message-ID: h4Pmc.5347$uN4.1032@clgrps12
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scott.marlowe wrote:
> sort_mem might do with a small bump, especially if you're only handling a
> few connections at a time. Be careful, it's per sort, and measured in
> megs, so it's easy for folks to set it too high and make their machine
> start flushing too much kernel cache, which will slow down the other
> backends that have to go to disk for data.
<snip>
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html
(under "Memory"), it says that sort_mem is set in KB. Is this document
wrong (or outdated)?

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