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From: Gavin Sherry <swm@alcove.com.au>
To: Dave Dutcher <dave@tridecap.com>
Cc: 'Chris' <dmagick@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: import performance
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:00:19 +1100 (EST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0603141159210.16412@linuxworld.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c64702$36ad6dc0$8300a8c0@tridecap.com>
References: <000001c64702$36ad6dc0$8300a8c0@tridecap.com>

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Dave Dutcher wrote:

> [Snip]
> > >
> > > shared_buffers = 256
> >
> > Make this higher too. If this is a dedicated machine with 512 MB of
> ram,
> > set it to something like 125000.
> >
> > You may need to adjust shared memory settings for your operating
> system.
> > See the manual for details.
> >
>
> Whoa.  Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't each buffer 8192 bytes?  So you are
> suggesting that he set his shared buffers to a gigabyte on a machine
> with 512 MB of ram?  Or was that just a miscalculation?

One to many zeros. Oops.

Gavin



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