Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > Now running: > cluster bar using bar_abcde; > appears to be very sensitive to the shared buffers setting. In an amazon > very large memory instance (64GB) and PostgreSQL 9.1.4, I observed the > following timings:
> Shared Buffers Time > 48Gb 2058ms > 8Gb 372ms > 1gb 67ms DropRelFileNodeBuffers, perhaps? See recent commits to reduce the cost of that for large shared_buffers, notably e8d029a30b5a5fb74b848a8697b1dfa3f66d9697 and ece01aae479227d9836294b287d872c5a6146a11 regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers