Re: 8.1beta, SunOS and shmget - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
>> 8 buffers each, I think, no?  That's 32 buffers total.

> You're right; I was thinking that NUM_SLRU_BUFFERS was 4, but I see it's
> now 8.  Did we bump that up on the basis of any solid evidence?

Never mind, looks like that goes all the way back: NUM_CLOG_BUFFERS was
8 in 7.2, and we just kept that value.  I doubt there's been any testing
of different possible values at all ...
        regards, tom lane