Re: Remove the comment on the countereffectiveness of large shared_buffers on Windows - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi Takayuki-san,

IMHO, I think we could remove third paragraph completely and
generalised starting of second paragraph, somewhat looks likes as
follow:
       <para>
-        If you have a dedicated database server with 1GB or more of RAM, a
-        reasonable starting value for <varname>shared_buffers</varname> is 25%
-        of the memory in your system.  There are some workloads where even
+        A reasonable starting value for
<varname>shared_buffers</varname> is 25%
+       of the RAM in your system.  There are some workloads where even        large settings for
<varname>shared_buffers</varname>are effective, but        because <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> also relies on
the       operating system cache, it is unlikely that an allocation of more than
 

I may be wrong here, would like know your and/or community's thought
on this. Thanks.

Regards,
Amul Sul


The new status of this patch is: Waiting on Author