Re: [ADMIN] how to make PostgreSQL using all memory and chaching the DB completely there

2011-07-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Christoph Anton Mitterer christoph.anton.mitte...@physik.uni-muenchen.de wrote: Well I'm still very unsure on how to configure many values... We've increased e.g. shared_buffers, temp_buffers, work_mem, maintenance_work_mem, max_stack_depth... and this greatly improved performance. But I

[ADMIN] how to make PostgreSQL using all memory and chaching the DB completely there

2011-07-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I've read through the documentation and while I've seen dozens of options which allow to set which kind of buffer/cache/shared-mem gets how big... I do not quite understand how to reach the following. What we have here at the institute is a quite powerful server, whit about 100GB RAM that

Re: [ADMIN] how to make PostgreSQL using all memory and chaching the DB completely there

2011-07-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
2011/7/14 Christoph Anton Mitterer christoph.anton.mitte...@physik.uni-muenchen.de: Hi. I've read through the documentation and while I've seen dozens of options which allow to set which kind of buffer/cache/shared-mem gets how big... I do not quite understand how to reach the following.

Re: [ADMIN] how to make PostgreSQL using all memory and chaching the DB completely there

2011-07-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
Christoph Anton Mitterer christoph.anton.mitte...@physik.uni-muenchen.de wrote: What we have here at the institute is a quite powerful server, whit about 100GB RAM that has a PostgreSQL running on it (with several DBs). In one cluster (postmaster instance) or separate? Currently it's