On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:08:02AM -0500, David Esposito wrote:
> According to Bruce Momjian's performance tuning guide, he recommends roughly
> half the amount of physical RAM for the shared_buffers ...
Does he? The guide I've seen from him AFAIR states that you should
allocate around 10% of physical RAM to shared_buffers. And this advice
goes against common Postgres folklore. Maybe it's a document that needs
to be updated.
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