From: Thomas Markus <t.markus@proventis.net>
To: pgsql-performance@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Interpreting shared_buffers setting
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:35:42 +0100
Message-ID: <746a1925-c653-d805-dd83-560198f91523@proventis.net> (raw)
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Hi,
check for blocksize (8k) as factor.
8k*131072=1G
regards
Thomas
Am 29.01.19 um 13:32 schrieb Bob Jolliffe:
> Excuse me if this is a silly question. I am trying to fiddle with
> shared_buffers setting on postgresql 10.6 on ubuntu 18.04 server.
>
> I have this at bottom of my config file:
> shared_buffers = 1GB
>
> Yet when I check the setting from pg_setting I see something quite different:
>
> postgres=# SELECT name, setting FROM pg_settings where name = 'shared_buffers';
> name | setting
> ----------------+---------
> shared_buffers | 131072
>
> Is this a question of units? It looks like 128M. Note when I change
> the setting to 2GB in conf file I see 262144 from pg_setting. I am
> now unsure what the actual shared_buffers allocation is. I cant see
> anything in the docs which tells me how to interpret the integer.
>
> Any clarification welcome.
>
> Regards
> Bob
>
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