Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:20:34PM -0700, Mischa Sandberg wrote:
Jim C. Nasby wrote:
What's sort_mem set to? I suspect you simply ran the machine out of
memory.
8192 (8MB). No issue when shared_buffers was 2000; same apps always.
So if all 50 backends were running a sort, you'd use 400MB. The box has
4G, right?
Umm ... yes. "if". 35-40 of them are doing pure INSERTS.
Not following your train.
Yep, tested /etc/system segmap_percent at 20,40,60.
No significant difference between 20 and 60.
That's pretty disturbing... how large is your database?
~10GB. Good locality. Where heading?
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