X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705FE9DC9E2 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:57:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02513-04 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:57:08 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from globalrelay.com (mail1.globalrelay.com [216.18.71.77]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3209D9DC89A for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:57:02 -0400 (AST) X-Virus-Scanned: Scanned by GRC-AntiVirus Gateway X-GR-Acctd: YES Received: from [216.160.41.114] (HELO DaveEMachine) by globalrelay.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.3) with ESMTP id 85707515; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:57:05 -0800 From: "Dave Dutcher" To: "'Gavin Sherry'" , "'Chris'" Cc: Subject: Re: import performance Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:57:05 -0600 Message-ID: <000001c64702$36ad6dc0$8300a8c0@tridecap.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.12 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.120] X-Spam-Score: 0.12 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/176 X-Sequence-Number: 17613 [Snip] > > > > shared_buffers = 256 > > Make this higher too. If this is a dedicated machine with 512 MB of ram, > set it to something like 125000. > > You may need to adjust shared memory settings for your operating system. > See the manual for details. > Whoa. Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't each buffer 8192 bytes? So you are suggesting that he set his shared buffers to a gigabyte on a machine with 512 MB of ram? Or was that just a miscalculation? Dave