Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
As a result, I was intending to inflate the value of effective_cache_size to closer to the amount of unused RAM on some of the machines I admin (once I've verified that they all have a unified buffer cache). Is that correct?
Effective cache size is IMHO a "bogus" parameter on postgresql.conf, this because: 1) That parameter is not intended to instruct postgres to use that ram but is only an hint to the engine on what the "DBA" *believe* the OS cache memory for postgres 2) This parameter change only the cost evaluation of plans ( and not soo much ) so don't hope to double this parameter and push postgres to use more RAM. Regards Gaetano Mendola
