On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 21:24 Pacific/Honolulu, mila wrote:
> Seth,
>
>> My system: RH9, PG 7.3.4, IDE, 1 gig RAM, celeron 1.7
> ...
>> Size of table: 16212 rows
>> Params: shared_buffers = 128, effective_cache_size = 8192
>
> Just in case,
> the "shared_buffers" value looks a bit far too small for your system.
> I think you should raise it to at least 1024, or so.
>
> Effective cache size could be (at least) doubled, too ==> this might
> help forcing the index use.
Thanks! I'm just beginning to play with these numbers. I'll
definitely try them out.
I can't wait to try out the script that will help set these parameters!
:)
Seth
