On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Mathieu Gilardet wrote:
Do be more specific, we have an heavy loaded server with SCSI disks (RAID 0 on a SAS controller), making a total of 500GB. Actually, there are 16GB RAM, representing about 2,5% of db size.
That's a reasonable ratio. Being able to hold somewhere around 1 to 5% of the database in RAM seems to common nowadays, and that works OK. But it's impossible to have a hard "rule" here because the working set needed to operate the queries and other activities on your server is completely dependant on the code you're running, your performance expectations, and your expected user load.
-- * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
