> Sounds like a reasonable starting point. You could certainly fiddle
> around a bit - especially with shared_buffers - to see if some other
> setting works better, but that should be in the ballpark.
I tend to set it a bit higher on EC2 to discourage the VM from
overcommitting memory I need. So, I'd do 2.5GB for that one.
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