* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote:
> I think we should try to hit the existing defaults, which would mean we
> would use this computation:

For my 2c, I was hoping this would improve things for our users by
raising the tiny 1M default work_mem, so I don't agree that we should
simply be coming up with an algorithm to hit the same numbers we already
have today.

>       (shared_buffers / 4) / max_connections + 768k / BUFSZ
> 
> This would give us for a default 128MB shared buffers and 100
> max_connections:
> 
>       (16384 / 4) / 100 + (768 * 1024) / 8192
> 
> which gives us 136, and that is 136 * 8192 or 1088k, close to 1MB.
> 
> For 10x shared buffers, 163840, it gives a work_mem of 4040k, rather
> than the 10M I was computing in the original patch.
> 
> How is that?

So this would only help if people are already going in and modifying
shared_buffers, but not setting work_mem?  I'd rather see better
defaults for users that don't touch anything, such as 4MB or even
larger.

        Thanks,

                Stephen

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