On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > These are extremely low settings on virtually any modern computer. I usually > look to set shared buffers in numbers of Gb and work_mem at least in tens if > not hundreds of Mb for any significantly sized database. For a read-only database, as was discussed, a lower shared_buffers settings makes sense. And 128M is low enough, I'd guess. Setting work_mem to hundreds of MB in a 4G system is suicide. Tens even is dangerous. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
