I tried setting it to 2GB and postgres wouldn't start. Didn't
investigate in much greater detail as to why it wouldn't start, but
after switching it back to 1GB it started fine.
On 8/15/06, Jim C. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
See the recent thread about how old rules of thumb for shared_buffers
are now completely bunk. With 4G of memory, setting shared_buffers to 2G
could easily be reasonable. The OP really needs to test several
different values with their actual workload and see what works best.
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