On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:02:21 +0200, "Michael Mattox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have 1.5 gigs of RAM on my >server but I'm also running a few other java programs that take up probably >500 megs total of memory, leaving me 1gig for Postgres. Should I set my >shared buffers to be 25% of 1gig? That would be 32768. Then what should my >effective cache be? Right now I have it set to 64000 which would be >512megs. Between the buffers and cache that'd be a total of 768megs, >leaving approximately 768 for my other java apps & the OS.
Michael, by setting effective_cache_size you do not allocate anything. This configuration variable is just a *hint* to the planner how much RAM is used for caching on your system (as shown by top or free). Servus Manfred ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org