On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:20:01AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: > I'm not aware of any actual evidence having emerged that it is of any > value to set shared buffers higher than 10000. http://flightaware.com They saw a large increase in how many concurrent connections they could handle when they bumped shared_buffers up from ~10% to 50% of memory. Back then they had 4G of memory. They're up to 12G right now, but haven't bumped shared_buffers up. Every single piece of advice I've seen on shared_buffers comes from the 7.x era, when our buffer management was extremely simplistic. IMO all of that knowledge was made obsolete when 8.0 came out, and our handling of shared_buffers has improved ever further since then. This is definately an area that could use a lot more testing. -- 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
