On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:05:02PM -0500, Ron wrote: > In an attempt to save myself some time, I thought I ask The Community > if anyone has guidance here. > > HW: Intel PM (very likely to be upgraded to an AMD Turion when the > proper HW becomes available) w/ 2GB of RAM (shortly to be 4GB) and a > 5400rpm 100GB HD (will be dual 7200rpm 160GB HD's as soon as they > become available) > > OS: The laptop in question is running the latest WinXP service pack > and patches. When the CPU and HD upgrades mentioned above happen, I > will probably start running dual boot FC5 + 64b Windows. > > Possible optional HW: external "box of HDs" for doing and/or > modelling stuff that can't be using only the internal ones. > > I want to get as much performance as I can out of the HW + OS. > > Anyone want to take a stab at what the config files and options > should be for best performance under most circumstances? > > This is intended to be a portable development platform, so opinions > as to which contrib modules are worth/not worth installing is also > appreciated. Off the top of my head... shared_buffers=30000 drop max_connections to what you'll actually be using maintenance_work_mem=100000 work_mem=2000000/max_connections (maybe * 0.9 for some added margin) autovacuum=on autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay=20 autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor=0.2 -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
