On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> I was initially concerned that tuning advice in this part of the docs
> would look out of place, but now see the 25% shared_buffers
> recommentation, and it looks fine, so we are OK. (Should we caution
> against more than 8GB of shared buffers? I don't see that in the docs.)
Has it ever been well-characterized what the problem is with >8GB?
I've used shared buffers above that size for testing purposes and
could never provoke a problem with it.
Cheers,
Jeff
