Re: Increase default effective_cache_size?

From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Russ Brown <pickscrape(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Increase default effective_cache_size?
Date: 2006-09-25 08:11:06
Message-ID: 45178F1A.3030500@sigaev.ru
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> current default of 1000 pages (8Mb) seems really pretty silly for modern
> machines; we could certainly set it to 10 times that without problems,
> and maybe much more. Thoughts?

May be, set by default effective_cache_size equal to number of shared buffers?
If pgsql is configured to use quarter or half of total memory for shared
buffer, then effective_cache_size will have good approximation...

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