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Hi,

pgtune could be the thing you're looking for.

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgtune/

regards

andreas


RBN wrote:
>
>
> Can someone suggest some appropriate initial configuration parameters 
> and shared memory settings for the following hardware? 
>
> I'm running Debian on a Dell with 4x6 core CPU and 128GB memory and 
> writing to  a coraid with 9 x 32GB SSDs RAID 10 using jfs with 8 
> drives active and 1 as spare. 
>
> I'm considering changing to xfs.  I'm not sure what block size to use 
> for the file system, is 8192 appropriate?  The OS page size is 4096.
>
> The database is both write and read intensive, with about 750MB of new 
> data added per week and old deleted every six months to one year.
>
>
>