Hi, I just got a new Penguin machine with 2 processors and 2G RAM. After installed postgres 7.2, I started to modify postgresql.conf to get max performance. I read Adm Guide and Bruce's article: PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning, in my understanding, shared_buffers is similar to Oracle's db_block_buffers, but also sometimes I feel it sounds like oracle's SGA. When I reached effective_cache_size, don't know what's that, docs can't help, it seems for optimizer, but how big should I set? no feeling! Does anyone can compare this paremeter to oracle's so I can understand better.
If I set SHARED_BUFFERS = 131072, what effective_cache_size should be? Thanks! Anna Zhang ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])