Re: PostgreSQL with Zabbix - problem of newbe

2010/4/9 Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>> The main problem with this configuration is that work_mem is set to an
>>> unsafe value--1.6GB.  With potentially 400 connections and about 2GB of RAM
>>> free after starting the server, work_mem='4MB' is as large as you can safely
>>> set this.
>>
>> if you need more work_mem for this or that and also need to serve a
>> lot of connections, you can always set it locally (1.6GB is still too
>> high though -- maybe 64mb if you need to do a big sort or something
>> like that).
>>
>> Another path to take is to install pgbouncer, which at 400 connections
>> is worth considering -- but only if your client stack doesn't use
>> certain features that require a private database session.  zabbix will
>> _probably_ work because it is db portable software (still should check
>> however).
>
> Also remember you can set it by user or by db, depending on your
> needs.  I had a server that had a reporting db and an app db.  The app
> db was set to 1 or 2 Meg work_mem, and the reporting db that had only
> one or two threads ever run at once was set to 128Meg.  Worked
> perfectly for what we needed.
>

Thanks for all Your advices. I will set up new parameters on Monday
morning and see how it perform.

Greetings for all PostgreSQL Team

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Krzysztof Kardas