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From: Michael Riess <mlriess@gmx.de>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 15,000 tables - next step
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:41:42 +0100
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Alvaro Herrera schrieb:
> Michael Riess wrote:
> 
>> Shared memory ... I currently use 1500 buffers for 50 connections, and 
>> performance really suffered when I used 3000 buffers. The problem is 
>> that it is a 1GB machine, and Apache + Tomcat need about 400MB.
> 
> Well, I'd think that's were your problem is.  Not only you have a
> (relatively speaking) small server -- you also share it with other
> very-memory-hungry services!  That's not a situation I'd like to be in.
> Try putting Apache and Tomcat elsewhere, and leave the bulk of the 1GB
> to Postgres. 

No can do. I can try to switch to a 2GB machine, but I will not use 
several machines. Not for a 5GB database. ;-)

> With 1500 shared buffers you are not really going
> anywhere -- you should have ten times that at the very least.
> 

Like I said - I tried to double the buffers and the performance did not 
improve in the least. And I also tried this on a 2GB machine, and 
swapping was not a problem. If I used 10x more buffers, I would in 
essence remove the OS buffers.



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