Re: Needed: Simplified guide to optimal memory configuration - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org> writes:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Todd Landfried wrote:
>> NOTICE:  shared_buffers is 256

> This looks like it's way too low. Try something like 2048.

It also is evidently PG 7.2 or before; SHOW's output hasn't looked like
that in years.  Try a more recent release --- there's usually nontrivial
performance improvements in each major release.

            regards, tom lane