X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AA352818 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:18:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08997-06 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:18:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC48652835 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:18:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5FEIP0g002609; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:18:25 -0400 (EDT) To: Dennis Bjorklund Cc: Todd Landfried , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Needed: Simplified guide to optimal memory configuration In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Dennis Bjorklund message dated "Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:25:37 +0200" Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:18:25 -0400 Message-ID: <2608.1118845105@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.005 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200506/330 X-Sequence-Number: 12967 Dennis Bjorklund writes: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Todd Landfried wrote: >> NOTICE: shared_buffers is 256 > This looks like it's way too low. Try something like 2048. It also is evidently PG 7.2 or before; SHOW's output hasn't looked like that in years. Try a more recent release --- there's usually nontrivial performance improvements in each major release. regards, tom lane