On Montag 15 Juni 2009 Tom Lane wrote: > These two settings are probably the cause. With shared_buffers at > 2GB, you do not have anywhere near 1GB to play around with in a > 32-bit environment. Try something like 200M and 500M. Wouldn't a recommendation to switch to 64bit PostgreSQL be a good idea also? Maybe his servers can't do that, I don't know. Also, I've heard that using shared_buffers = 500MB is enough (even in 64bit), and the rest will be cached by Linux cache alone. Is that true? mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4 // Keyserver: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
