Hello I am working on installing and configuring a Postgres database server. I am running Redhat Enterprise ES 3.0 and Redhat Database 3.0. "Postgres version 7.3.4-11". This server will host 150-200 users. There will be about 9 database in our cluster ranging anywhere from 500MB to 3GB The hardware is a dual Xeon running at 2.8GHZ, 4GB RAM, Ultra 320 SCSI hard drives running on Adaptec Ultra Raid Controllers. I am planning on separating the OS, Data, WAL on to separate drives which will be mirrored. I am looking for input on setting kernel parameters, and Postgres server runtime parameters and other setting relating to tuning. Also is there any benchmarking tools available that will help me tune this server.
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