On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:08:02AM -0500, David Esposito wrote: > According to Bruce Momjian's performance tuning guide, he recommends roughly > half the amount of physical RAM for the shared_buffers ...
Does he? The guide I've seen from him AFAIR states that you should allocate around 10% of physical RAM to shared_buffers. And this advice goes against common Postgres folklore. Maybe it's a document that needs to be updated. -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "There is evil in the world. There are dark, awful things. Occasionally, we get a glimpse of them. But there are dark corners; horrors almost impossible to imagine... even in our worst nightmares." (Van Helsing, Dracula A.D. 1972) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
