Re: Tuning for mid-size server - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:42:21AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> I know this is an old email, but have you tested larger shared buffers
> in CVS HEAD with Jan's new cache replacement policy?

Not yet.  It's on our TODO list, for sure, because the consequences
of relying too much on the filesystem buffers under certain perverse
loads is lousy database performance _precisely_ when we need it.  I
expect some testing of this type some time in January.

A

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