Bruce Momjian has an other interesting manual on hardware performance tuning: http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/hw_performance/index.html
It covers a lot of the same ground plus some other goodies. /John >>> "Joel Fradkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12-02-2005 16:22:28 >>> This was also in the Desknow web page. changing these parameters will probably cause postgres to not start. su - postgres pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data start ( I actualy left the path off ) in the message it says you need to increase SHMMAX to a certain number. To do this you must be root echo <shared_buffers * 8192> /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax to make it permanent edit /etc/sysctl.conf kernel.shmmax = <shared_buffers * 8192> example shared_buffers = 20000 it is 167763968 (160mb). Joel Fradkin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])