Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas, it seems that part of the problem is that it's easy to set these > parameters and ignore - Is it efficient to calculate them per machine at > loadtime? Say, make it a function of CPU speed and total RAM.
For some of them, yes, that's a reasonable thing to do. The 15-10-5 backoff parameters are really not related to the total memory, but rather the amount of memory the default pager needs to run in; that's a relative constant for a given machine. Thomas
