Alex, > The new machine will have 48 GB of RAM, so figuring out starting > points for the Shared Buffers and Work_mem/Maintenance_work_mem is > going to be a crap shoot, since the defaults still seem to be based > upon 256MB of RAM or less. Why a crap shoot? Set shared_buffers to 12GB. Set work_mem to 20GB / # of concurrent active connections (check your logs). Set Maint_mem to 2GB (I don't think we can actually use more). Then tune from there. Also, use 8.2 or later, and you'd better compile 64-bit. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(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