| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dave Smith <dave(dot)smith(at)candata(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort! |
| Date: | 2003-11-11 00:33:24 |
| Message-ID: | 3FB02E54.6070401@Yahoo.com |
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Dave Smith wrote:
> I am running postgres 7.2.4 on SCO Open Server 5.0.4 and am
> sporadically seeing these messages in the log. What causes this message
> and what do I need to look for in terms of system settings to correct
> the problem.
>
> Currently my memory settings are the defaults shipped with postgres.
>
You have to increase the postgresql.conf parameter shared_buffers. It is
the number of 8k pages held in the shared buffer cache of the
postmaster. Try anything between 512 and 8192 to get started and read on
PostgreSQL performance tuning a little.
Jan
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