On Montag 15 Juni 2009 Tom Lane wrote:
> These two settings are probably the cause. With shared_buffers at
> 2GB, you do not have anywhere near 1GB to play around with in a
> 32-bit environment. Try something like 200M and 500M.
Wouldn't a recommendation to switch to 64bit PostgreSQL be a good idea
also? Maybe his servers can't do that, I don't know.
Also, I've heard that using shared_buffers = 500MB is enough (even in
64bit), and the rest will be cached by Linux cache alone. Is that true?
mfg zmi
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