Re: amazon aroura config - seriously overcommited defaults? (May be Off Topic)

On 12/8/18 6:38 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-12-08 15:23:19 -0800, Rob Sargent wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2018, at 3:12 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2018-12-08 12:06:23 -0800, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
>>>> On RDS PostgreSQL, the default is 25% of your server memory. This seems
>>>> to be pretty widely accepted as a good starting point on PostgreSQL.
>>> FWIW, I think it's widely cited, but also bad advice. 25% for a OLTP
>>> workload on a 1TB machine with a database size above 25% is a terrible
>>> idea.
>>>
>> Sorry, could you please expand “database size above 25%”? 25% of what?
> Memory available to postgres (i.e. 100% of the server's memory on a
> server dedicated to postgres, less if it's shared duty).
>

I think the best advice these days is that you need to triangulate to
find the best setting for shared_buffers. It's very workload dependent,
and there isn't even a semi-reliable rule of thumb.

cheers

andrew

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