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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Michael Ryan S. Puncia <mpuncia@census.gov.ph>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: memory allocation
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:58:16 +0100
Message-ID: <40D2F4F8.20600@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406181320.i5IDKLrA010944@mail.census.gov.ph>
References: <200406181320.i5IDKLrA010944@mail.census.gov.ph>

Michael Ryan S. Puncia wrote:
> Hi everyone .
> 
>  
> 
> How much memory should I give to the kernel and postgresql
> 
> I have 1G of memory and 120G of HD

Devrim's pointed you to a guide to the configuration file. There's also 
an introduction to performance tuning on the same site.

An important thing to remember is that the sort_mem is the amount of 
memory available *per sort* and some queries can use several sorts.

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd



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