From: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Hilary Forbes" <hforbes(at)dmr(dot)co(dot)uk> |
Subject: | Re: Version 7 question |
Date: | 2003-07-02 01:37:19 |
Message-ID: | 04b601c3403a$877ef0b0$2800a8c0@mars |
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Hi Hillary,
I'd suggest around 1000 to 2000 shared buffers and bump your max connections
to at least 64.
Make sure you're kernel allowed enough shared memory for the above (2000 *
8k = 16MB)
Chris
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From: "Hilary Forbes" <hforbes(at)dmr(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: [PERFORM] Version 7 question
> I'm just trying to improve performance on version 7 before doing some
tests and hopefully upgrading to 7.3.
>
> At the moment we have
> B=64 (no of shared buffers)
> N=32 (no of connections)
> in postmaster.opt which I take it is the equivalent of the new
postgresql.conf file.
>
> From all that is being written about later versions I suspect that this
is far too low. Would I be fairly safe in making the no of shared buffers
larger? Also is there an equivalent of effective_cache_size that I can set
for version 7?
>
> Many thanks in advance
> Hilary
>
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> Hilary Forbes
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