| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | David Esposito <pgsql-general(at)esposito(dot)newnetco(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Performance tuning on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 |
| Date: | 2004-12-06 16:31:01 |
| Message-ID: | 20041206163101.GF7455@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:08:02AM -0500, David Esposito wrote:
> According to Bruce Momjian's performance tuning guide, he recommends roughly
> half the amount of physical RAM for the shared_buffers ...
Does he? The guide I've seen from him AFAIR states that you should
allocate around 10% of physical RAM to shared_buffers. And this advice
goes against common Postgres folklore. Maybe it's a document that needs
to be updated.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
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