On 10/9/07, Radhika S <radhika.sambamurti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Along with my previous message (slow postgres), I notice the shared buffer > setting for our production database is set to 1000. > How much higher can I go? I don't know how much my kernel can take? A lot higher. How much memory do you have? > I am running postgres 7.4.6 on Redhat enterprise 3 server. Unless you've got a very good reason do yourself a favour and upgrade to 8.2.5. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly