From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mnc.ch>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: planner with index scan cost way off actual cost,
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:40:45 +1200
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:35:14AM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
>>>shared_buffer = 12000
>>>effective_cache_size = 25000
>>>
>>>This would mean you are reserving 100M for Postgres to cache relation
>>>pages, and informing the planner that it can expect ~200M available
>>>from the disk buffer cache. To give a better recommendation, we need
>>
>>Ok, thanks. I wanted to investigate this field, but as the
>>application is multithreaded and uses a lot of postgres clients,
>>I wanted to make sure the shared_buffers values is globally for
>>postgres, not just per (TCP) connection to postgres, before
>>increasing the value, fearing to take the whole server down.
>
>
> shared_buffer is for the entire 'cluster', not per-connection or
> per-database.
>
> Also, effective_cache_size of 25000 on a 1G machine seems pretty
> conservative to me. I'd set it to at least 512MB, if not closer to
> 800MB.
I was going to recommend higher - but not knowing what else was running,
kept it to quite conservative :-)... and given he's running java, the
JVM could easily eat 512M all by itself!
Cheers
Mark
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