On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:03:50AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Montag, 25. September 2006 04:04 schrieb ITAGAKI Takahiro: > > #shared_buffers = 32000kB # min 128kB or max_connections*16kB > > #temp_buffers = 8000kB # min 800kB > > #effective_cache_size = 8000kB > > > > Are there any reasons to continue to use 1000-unit numbers? Megabyte-unit > > (32MB and 8MB) seems to be more friendly for users. It increases some > > amount of values (4000 vs. 4096), but there is little in it. > > The reason with the shared_buffers is that the detection code in initdb has > 400kB as minimum value, and it would be pretty complicated to code the > detection code to handle both kB and MB units. If someone wants to try it, > though, please go ahead.
What about 0.4MB? Granted, it's uglier than 400kB, but anyone running on a machine that can't handle at least 1MB is already in the "pretty ugly" realm... -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly