Hi,
I'm trying to understand what the documentation means by bytes per increment, what is the increment supposed to be bytes, MB, or Kb.  I have my shared_buffers set to 577 MB(4 instances) and I'm multiplying by 8400 bytes.  I would think I would want to keep everything in bytes and not mulitply bytes times MB, but this is what table 17-2 implies.  If I convert 577 to bytes and multiply, my calculator goes exponential on me. I'm going through this table and adding up to see what my shmmax should be (it's 7.5 GB) out of a total memory of 16 GB with 1000 max_connections right now.  What should I use as the "increment" value in regards to shared buffers, 577, 590848 or 605028352 ?
 
a) 577 MB (This seems too small)
b) 590,848 Kb (this seems just right)
c) 605,028,352 bytes  (this seems too big, I hope it's not c)
 
Thanks,
~DjK
 
Table 17-2. Configuration parameters affecting PostgreSQL's shared memory usage

Name	Approximate multiplier (bytes per increment) as of 8.3
max_connections	1800 + 270 * max_locks_per_transaction
autovacuum_max_workers	1800 + 270 * max_locks_per_transaction
max_prepared_transactions	770 + 270 * max_locks_per_transaction
shared_buffers	8400 (assuming 8 kB BLCKSZ)
wal_buffers	8200 (assuming 8 kB XLOG_BLCKSZ)
max_fsm_relations	70
max_fsm_pages	6
Fixed space requirements	770 kB

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