Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7401E650EC8 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:14:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00242-03 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:13:39 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EFE650EC2 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:09:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (200-126-116-204.bk8-dsl.surnet.cl [200.126.116.204]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m611BVpb014285 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:11:38 -0700 Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4915847C7C; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:09:27 -0400 (CLT) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:09:27 -0400 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Rafael Domiciano Cc: Tino Schwarze , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Configuring Shared Buffers Message-ID: <20080701010927.GH18252@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <3a0028490806301052y193a4aeayfcc6deafdeb1cdb2@mail.gmail.com> <20080630182830.GA5358@easy2.in-chemnitz.de> <3a0028490806301201m5e4c48d4qc51a880b8f80ecf5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3a0028490806301201m5e4c48d4qc51a880b8f80ecf5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:11:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/269 X-Sequence-Number: 29607 Rafael Domiciano escribió: > The Postgres version is 8.3.3 and I am using Fedora Core 8. > I have in the actual server around 70 connections the same time. I am > assigning for this 100. 100 MB? That's not very much either. You can probably get a hefty performance boost by upping it a lot more (depending on whether the machine is doing something else, or Postgres is the only service running on it.) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support