> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-performance- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Parnefjord > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:05 AM > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning > EnterpriseDB advocates: 250 KB + 8.2 KB * shared_buffers + 14.2 kB * > max_connections up to infinity > [http://www.enterprisedb.com/documentation/kernel-resources.html] ... + 8.1KB * wal_buffers + 6 * max_fsm_pages + 65 * max_fsm_relations. Okay, maybe getting pedantic; but if you're going to cite the ~256KB const over head ... :-)