Re: Starting PostgreSQL 8.0.4 with more memory [FreeBSD 6.0] - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vlad
Subject Re: Starting PostgreSQL 8.0.4 with more memory [FreeBSD 6.0]
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In response to Re: Starting PostgreSQL 8.0.4 with more memory [FreeBSD 6.0]  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom,

I understood your point on memory usage. Out of curiosity - 115200
buffers seems to be little less than 1 gig (I assume 1 buffer = 8k),
so I could not get any closer to 2gigs anyways....

Is it practical experience that more than 50000 buggers actually hurts
postgresql performance? Any ideas why? What about really big
databases?

> BTW, where did you get the idea that it was sensible to set work_mem
> higher than maintenance_work_mem?  That's just nuts.

I was just playing with different settings to see if there is one I
can adjust to get it started.

>
> See the pgsql-performance archives for past discussions of this topic.

ok, thnx

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Vlad

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