On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:42:16 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> The short answer is no; the sweet spot for shared_buffers is usually on
> the order of 10000 buffers, and trying to go for "75% of RAM" isn't
> going to do anything except hurt. For the long answer see the
> pgsql-performance list archives.
>
> regards, tom lane
Well, I didn't find a whole lot in the list-archives, so I emailed
that list whith a few more questions. My postgres server is just
crawling right now :(
-Josh
