[Jim C. Nasby - Thu at 10:28:31AM -0500] > I think it'd be much better to experiment with using much larger > shared_buffers settings. The conventional wisdom there is from 7.x days > when you really didn't want a large buffer, but that doesn't really > apply with the new buffer management we got in 8.0. I know of one site > that doubled their performance by setting shared_buffers to 50% of > memory. I've upped it a bit, but it would require a server restart to get the new setting into effect. This is relatively "expensive" for us. Does anyone else share the viewpoint of Nasby, and does anyone have recommendation for a good value? Our previous value was 200M, and I don't want to go to the extremes just yet. We have 6G of memory totally.
