On 10/10/07, Radhika S <radhika.sambamurti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you scott. > > We plan on upgrading to Postgres 8.2 very soon. > Would it be safe to say I can make my SHARED BUFFER setting 200MB (I have > 2GB memory ). > The default is 24MB. On a dedicated db machine with 2 Gigs of ram 500Meg is fine. I run 768 Meg shared_buffers on a machine that runs postgresql 8.2 and apache/php and routinely have 1Gig of kernel cache on it. So yeah, 200M shared_buffers should be no problem. ---------------------------(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