From: Tsunakawa, Takayuki/綱川 貴之
> Thank you, I'll try the read-write test with these settings on the weekend,
> when my PC is available. I understood that your intention is to avoid being
> affected by checkpointing and WAL segment creation.
The result looks nice as follows. I took the mean value of three runs.
shared_buffers tps
256MB 990
512MB 813
1GB 1189
2GB 2258
4GB 5003
8GB 5062
"512MB is the largest effective size" seems to be a superstition, although I don't know the reason for the drop at
512MB.
Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa