Re: [PERFORM] How much memory is PostgreSQL using

2010-04-03 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le 02/04/2010 22:10, Campbell, Lance a écrit : Greg, Thanks for your help. 1) How does the number of buffers provided by pg_buffercache compare to memory (buffers * X = Y meg)? 1 buffer is 8 KB. 2) Is there a way to tell how many total buffers I have available/max? With pg_buffercache,

Re: [PERFORM] How much memory is PostgreSQL using

2010-04-02 Thread Campbell, Lance
217-333-0382 -Original Message- From: Greg Smith [mailto:g...@2ndquadrant.com] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 11:54 AM To: Campbell, Lance Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] How much memory is PostgreSQL using Campbell, Lance wrote: Or is there some way to ask

Re: [PERFORM] How much memory is PostgreSQL using

2010-03-29 Thread Greg Smith
Campbell, Lance wrote: Or is there some way to ask PostgreSQL how much memory are you using to cache disk blocks currently? You can install contrib/pg_buffercache into each database and count how many used blocks are there. Note that running queries using that diagnostic tool is really

Re: [PERFORM] How much memory PostgreSQL is going to use?

2007-06-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Arnau [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I have a server with 4GB of memory and I'm tweaking the PostgreSQL configuration. This server will be dedicated to run PostgreSQL so I'd like to dedicate as much as possible RAM to it. I have dedicated 1GB to shared_buffers

Re: [PERFORM] How much memory in 32 bits Architecture to Shared Buffers

2006-10-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Marcelo Costa wrote: Hi, to all! Recently i try increasing the memory values of shared buffers on one IBM xseries 255 (Quad XEON 2.8, 8 GB RAM, 2 disk SCSI 36 GB(Raid 1), 1 Storage. You haven't specified your OS so I am going to assume Linux. Where I start up the cluster very messages of

Re: [PERFORM] How much memory in 32 bits Architecture to Shared Buffers is Possible

2006-10-02 Thread Marcelo Costa
Yes, my system is DEBIAN SARGE 3.0thanks,Marcelo2006/10/2, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marcelo Costa wrote: Hi, to all! Recently i try increasing the memory values of shared buffers on one IBM xseries 255 (Quad XEON 2.8, 8 GB RAM, 2 disk SCSI 36 GB(Raid 1), 1 Storage. You haven't specified

Re: [PERFORM] How much memory?

2005-10-27 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:39:33PM -0400, Ron Peacetree wrote: Databases basically come in 4 sizes: 1= The entire DB fits into memory. 2= The performance critical table(s) fit(s) into memory 3= The indexes of the performance critical table(s) fit into memory. 4= Neither the performance