On 10/17/2013 10:33 AM, Jeff Janes wrote:

    A lot. A whole lot, more than what most people have in production
    with more than that. You are forgetting a very large segment of the
    population who run... VMs.

    Why don't we just have 3 default config files:

    2GB memory
    4GB memory
    8GB memory


But what would go in each of those files?  Once we agree on what would
be in them, why not just have a continuous knob that does that same thing?

Because we should set defaults, not optimized parameters. Workloads vary and we can reasonably say this is what we want BY DEFAULT for something but we can not reasonably say, "this is what will suit your needs".

Once you get above 8GB of memory you are dealing with workloads that vary widely and will almost always need some kind of indvidual attention. However, 8GB and below, we can set reasonable defaults that allow a user to likely but possibly not worry about changing the conf.

Joshua D. Drake

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