> Well, we're not going to increase the default to gigabytes, but we could > very probably increase it by a factor of 10 or so without anyone > squawking. It's been awhile since I heard of anyone trying to run PG in > 4MB shmmax. How much would a change of that size help? Last I checked, though, this comes out of the allocation available to shared_buffers. And there definitely are several OSes (several linuxes, OSX) still limited to 32MB by default. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance