This is from my /etc/rc.d/init/postgres file:
su -l postgres -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster -o
'-B 4096 -i' start >/dev/null 2>&
1"
I'm only using 32MB RAM pr. postmaster, because I allow up to 5
connections from my webserver and PostgreSQL has only 128MB RAM (but it
will have 256 shortly, so I will double that).
Memory tweaking is highly critical to achive a minimum of performance.
Poul L. Christiansen
Mitch Vincent wrote:
>
> I have several beefy server on which we run PostgreSQL (the nicest a Dual
> PIII 800 with 512 megs of RAM).. I just noticed that I didn't tweak the -B
> and -o '-S' options any -- though I know this conversation has been on-list
> in the past, I couldn't find it in the archives.
>
> I'd like to beef it up some but without going overboard, many of my queries
> do extensive sorting so I think it would benefit from some increased
> memory..
>
> If I may ask, what are you guys using on your production servers?
>
> -Mitch
