On 5/31/05, Martin Fandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the documentation of > http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html > is the shared_buffers set to 1/3 of the availble RAM. You're set > 50000*8/1024=391 MB SHMEM. The effective_cache_size in your > configuration is 450000*8/1024=3516 MB SHMEM. That's 3907MB > of RAM but you have less than 2048MB availble.
I wrote that wrong, there is actually 4 gigs of ram available. > > What value do you have in /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax? > > I'm really new at using postgres and i have not many experience > but maybe you can try to use 1/3 (682MB/87424)for shared_buffers > and 2/3 (1365MB/174720) for the effective_cache_size? But i these > settings are to high too. > > best regards > Martin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: 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