Re: 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Rainer Bauer <usenet(at)munnin(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit
Date: 2007-10-22 14:33:17
Message-ID: 20071022143317.GM15375@svr2.hagander.net
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:03:35PM +0200, Rainer Bauer wrote:
> >> shared_buffers = 512MB
> >
> >As a general note, thsi is *way* too high. All evidence I've seen points to
> >that you should have shared_buffers as *small* as possible on win32,
> >because memory access there is slow. And leave more of the caching up to
> >the OS.
>
> I followed Josh's advice here:
> <http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2007-06/msg00606.php>
>
> What value would you recommend then? The default 32MB?

That advice is good - for Unix platforms. For windows, yes, try with 32Mb.

//Magnus

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