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From Manfred Koizar
Subject Re: Shared buffers, Sort memory, Effective Cache Size
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In response to Re: Shared buffers, Sort memory, Effective Cache Size  (Qing Zhao <qzhao@supplyfx.com>)
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:01:30 -0700, Qing Zhao <qzhao@supplyfx.com>
wrote:
>I have recently configured my PG7.3 on a G5 (8GB RAM) with
>shmmax set to 512MB and shared_buffer=50000, sort_mem=4096
>and effective cache size = 10000.  It seems working great so far but
>I am wondering if I should make effctive cache size larger myself.

Yes, much larger!  And while you are at it make shared_buffers smaller.

Servus
 Manfred

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