"Jim Nasby" <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The real issue is that the "stock" postgresql.conf is just horrible. It was > originally tuned for something like a 486, but even the recent changes have > only brought it up to the "pentium era" (case in point: 24MB of shared buffers > equates to a machine with 128MB of memory, give or take). I think it's more that the stock configure has to assume it's not a dedicated box. Picture someone installing Postgres on their debian box because it's required for Gnucash. Even having 24M suddenly disappear from the box is quite a bit. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
