From: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com>
To: Javier Somoza <jsomoza@pandasoftware.es>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Setting the shared buffers
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:17:35 +0100
Message-ID: <b41c75520602270517u1fd1232ev@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141044216.1556.54.camel@pndsoft>
References: <1141044216.1556.54.camel@pndsoft>
>
> How should i set this configuration? Depending on the memory?
> And then is it necessary to perform a benchmarking test?
I've set it to 'shared_buffers = 12288' with 8 GB RAM on postgresql 7.4.9,
FreeBSD 6.0. There is no exact size, depends on type of workload, server-OS
etc. Adjust it up and down and see if your performance changes.
regards
Claus
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