Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem
Date: 2013-10-17 15:55:14
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I still think my previous proposal of increasing the defaults for
> work_mem and maintenance_work_mem by 4X would serve many more
> people well than it would serve poorly.  I haven't heard anyone
> disagree with that notion.  Does anyone disagree?  Should we do
> it?

I think that it makes sense to do that.  Those are still reasonable
defaults for a machine with 2GB of RAM, maybe even with less.
We're talking about putting this only in a release that will come
out in 2014.  How many machines used for a database server that new
will have less than that?

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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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