On Oct 11, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Claus Guttesen wrote:
Thank you for your reply. Does this apply to FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.0 on
amd64 (or both)?
It applies to FreeBSD >= 5.0.
However, I have not been able to get a real answer from the FreeBSD
hacker community on what the max buffer space usage will
> > > Apparently this formula is no longer relevant on the FreeBSD systems as
> > > it can cache up to almost all the available RAM. With 4GB of RAM, one
> > > could specify most of the RAM as being available for caching, assuming
> > > that nothing but PostgreSQL runs on the server -- certainly 1/
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:54 +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> > > I have a postgresql 7.4.8-server with 4 GB ram.
> > > #effective_cache_size = 1000# typically 8KB each
> > >
> > > This is computed by sysctl -n vfs.hibufspace / 8192 (on FreeBSD). So I
> > > changed it to:
> > >
> > > effective_cac
On 17 Sep 2003 at 11:48, Nick Barr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been following a thread on this list "Inconsistent performance"
> and had a few questions especially the bits about effective_cache_size.
> I have read some of the docs, and some other threads on this setting,
> and it seems to used by th
On 1 Jul 2003 at 15:50, Howard Oblowitz wrote:
> The documentation says that Effective Cache Size "sets the optimizer's
> assumption
> about the effective size of the disk cache ( that is, the portion of the
> kernel's disk
> cache that will be used for PostgreSQL data files ).
>
> What then wil
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:50:14 +0200 , Howard Oblowitz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What then will be the effect of setting this too high?
The planner might choose an index scan where a sequential scan would
be faster.
>And too low?
The planner might choose a sequential scan where an index scan woul
Good questions. Basically, telling postgresql it has a larger disk cache
makes it favor index operations, smaller makes it favor seq scans.
If your machine has super fast I/O then you may want it to favor seq
scans, whereas if you have more CPU power than I/O bandwidth then you'd
likely want i
