Re: shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Brendan Duddridge
Subject Re: shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X
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Msg-id D3861A42-C8A2-42C7-ABCB-494BED477819@clickspace.com
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In response to Re: shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>)
Responses Re: shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: shared_buffers > 284263 on OS X  (Guido Neitzer <lists@event-s.net>)
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I think the main issue is that we can't seem to get PostgreSQL
compiled for 64 bit on OS X on an Xserve G5. Has anyone done that?

We have 8 GB of RAM on that server, but we can't seem to utilize it
all. At least not for the shared_buffers setting.

Thanks,

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On Nov 26, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 08:13:26PM -0700, Brian Wipf wrote:
>> It certainly is unfortunate if Guido's right and this is an upper
>> limit for OS X. The performance benefit of having high shared_buffers
>> on our mostly read database is remarkable.
>
> Got any data about that you can share? People have been wondering
> about
> cases where drastically increasing shared_buffers makes a difference.
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