On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 15:43, David Griffiths wrote:
> Here are part of the contents of my sysctl.conf file (note that I've
> played with values as low as 60 with no difference)
> kernel.shmmax=14
> kernel.shmall=14
This is only a system-wide limit -- it either allows the share
David,
> shared_buffers = 96000 # min max_connections*2 or 16, 8KB each
This seems a little high to me, even for 2gb RAM. What % of your available
RAM does it work out to?
> effective_cache_size = 6000 # typically 8KB each
This is very, very low. Given your hardware, I'd set it
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 14:43, David Griffiths wrote:
> I've been having performance issues with Postgres (sequential scans vs
> index scans in an update statement). I've read that optimizer will
> change it's plan based on the resources it thinks are available. In
> addition, I've read alot of confl
