Re: Question about memory allocations

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:28 -0400, Steve wrote:
>
> I'm trying to tune the memory usage of a new machine that has a -lot- of
> memory in it (32 gigs).

...
>
> shared_buffers = 16GB

Really?

Wow!

Common wisdom in the past has been that values above a couple of hundred
MB will degrade performance. Have you done any benchmarks on 8.2.x that
show that you get an improvement from this, or did you just take the
"too much of a good thing is wonderful" approach?

Cheers,
Andrew.

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