On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > I was initially concerned that tuning advice in this part of the docs > would look out of place, but now see the 25% shared_buffers > recommentation, and it looks fine, so we are OK. (Should we caution > against more than 8GB of shared buffers? I don't see that in the docs.)
Has it ever been well-characterized what the problem is with >8GB? I've used shared buffers above that size for testing purposes and could never provoke a problem with it. Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
