Re: New servers, need suggestions for sensible tuning settings - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Bob Branch <bbranch@nabancard.com> wrote:

> Is there a reference I can look at that will give me a description
> of how to determine sensible values for settings like
> shared_buffers, effective_cache_size, etc. that I see discussed on
> this list and elsewhere?

You might start with these links:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgtune/

-Kevin