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From Josh Trutwin
Subject Re: Shared Buffer setting in postgresql.conf
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Msg-id 20071010153201.65331672@joplin.trutwins.homeip.net
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In response to Re: Shared Buffer setting in postgresql.conf  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:20:02 -0500
"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:

> In 7.4, using 25% is often too high a setting for it to handle well,
> and the practical useful maximum is usually under 10,000
> shared_buffers, and often closer to 1,000 to 5,000

Scott - interesting reply.  Is this also true for 8.1?  I currently
have mine set to 16384 - server has 3.5 GB of total memory.

Josh

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