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From: Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Shared buffers
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:18:26 -0500
Message-ID: <592EB204-908D-4DD3-8365-E06BA564E7CC@pervasive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf54be870607271400q2cdb96d5me425f801c4c58285@mail.gmail.com>
References: <44C8C67C.0AD0.0080.0@klinik.uni-regensburg.de>
	<bf54be870607271400q2cdb96d5me425f801c4c58285@mail.gmail.com>

Note that starting in 8.0/8.1, you can sometimes get very large gains  
by setting shared_buffers very high; 1/2 of memory or more.

On Jul 27, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Shoaib Mir wrote:

> Go to http://www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList/ and see the  
> shared_buffers settings section there.
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Shoaib Mir
> EnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com)
>
>
> On 7/27/06, Christian Rengstl <Christian.Rengstl@klinik.uni- 
> regensburg.de > wrote:Hi list,
>
> just wanted to ask what is a "good/reasonable" value for the  
> shared_bufferes variable. Right now i set it to 64000 on a windows  
> 2003 server with 1GB ram and 3.2 GHz which runs as file server (for  
> only a small number of users) and db server.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
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