Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem
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Msg-id 52601851.4010909@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 10/17/2013 09:49 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

>> A lot. A whole lot, more than what most people have in production with more
>> than that. You are forgetting a very large segment of the population who
>> run... VMs.
>
> That's true, but are you actually arguing for keeping work_mem at 1MB?
>
> Even on a VM with only 1GB of RAM, work_mem=4MB is not going to cause
> any problems unless you're also trying to service a large number of
> simultaneous connections.  And if you're doing that, you probably need
> to rethink something anyway.

No. I am arguing for the multiple config file option.

JD


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