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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:17:35 +0100
From: "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com>
To: "Javier Somoza" <jsomoza@pandasoftware.es>
Subject: Re: Setting the shared buffers
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
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>
>             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 =3D 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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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How should i set thi=
s configuration? Depending on the memory?<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And then=
 is it necessary to perform a benchmarking test?</blockquote><div><br>I've =
set it to 'shared_buffers =3D 12288' with 8 GB RAM on postgresql 7.4.9, Fre=
eBSD 6.0. There is no exact size, depends on type of workload, server-OS et=
c. Adjust it up and down and see if your performance changes.
<br><br>regards<br>Claus<br><br></div></div>

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