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From: Marcin Stępnicki <mstepnicki@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: Radhika S <radhika.sambamurti@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Shared Buffer setting in postgresql.conf
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:25:45 +0200
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On 10/9/07, Radhika S <radhika.sambamurti@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Along with my previous message (slow postgres), I notice the shared buffer
> setting for our production database is set to 1000.
> How much higher can I go?  I don't know how much my kernel can take?

A lot higher. How much memory do you have?

> I am running postgres 7.4.6 on Redhat enterprise 3 server.

Unless you've got a very good reason do yourself a favour and upgrade to 8.2.5.



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