On 21-Feb-08, at 12:13 AM, bh yuan wrote:
Hi I am using Postgres8.3 on 8G memory , Xeon X5355 Quad Core x 2 processer RH5 machine with 10G data. (with some table which have about 2,000,000~ 5,000,000 rows ) I have two quesion. 1. how to set the shared_buffers and other postgresql.conf parameter for best performance? I only run the Postgres8.3 on the machine so I set the shared_buffers = 7168MB (7G) But somebody said it is too big, so confused.
Yes, it is too big! make it 2G to start
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