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From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 16:57:18 +0100
Message-ID: <9bbcef731001070757s61b12ac7yfbf64ca383862675@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Air-traffic benchmark
To: Lefteris <lsidir@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
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2010/1/7 Lefteris <lsidir@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 7.1.2010 15:23, Lefteris wrote:
>>
>>> I think what you all said was very helpful and clear! The only part
>>> that I still disagree/don't understand is the shared_buffer option:))
>>
>> Did you ever try increasing shared_buffers to what was suggested (around
>> 4 GB) and see what happens (I didn't see it in your posts)?
>
> No I did not to that yet, mainly because I need the admin of the
> machine to change the shmmax of the kernel and also because I have no
> multiple queries running. Does Seq scan uses shared_buffers?

Everything uses shared_buffers, even things that do not benefit from
it. This is because shared_buffers is the part of the general database
IO - it's unavoidable.