On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 05:31:29PM -0400, Mark Lonsdale wrote: > Set my sort_mem to 8192
You really need to look at what your workload is before trying to tweak sort_mem. With 8G of memory, sort_mem=400000 (~400MB) with only 10 active connections might be a good setting. It's usually better to get a sort to fit into memory than spill to disk. Since you never mentioned what kind of workload you have or how many active connections there are, it's pretty much impossible to make a recommendation on that setting. -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
