On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 18:59, Sean Chittenden wrote: > > NB> So far: > > > > NB> shared_buffers = 1/16th of total memory > > NB> effective_cache_size = 80% of the supposed kernel cache. > > > > Please take into account the blocksize compiled into PG, too... > > Would anyone object to a patch that exports the blocksize via a > readonly GUC? Too many tunables are page dependant, which is > infuriating when copying configs from DB to DB. I wish pgsql had some > notion of percentages for values that end with a '%'.
Rather than showing the block size, how about we change the tunables to
be physical sizes rather than block based?
effective_cache_size = 1.5GB
shared_buffers = 25MB
Percentages would be slick as well, but doing the above should fix most
of the issue -- and be friendlier to read.
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