2013/3/18 Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@xxxxxxxxx>: > Rodrigo Barboza <rodrigombufrj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So setting this as half of ram, as suggested in postgres tuning >> webpage should be safe? > > Half of RAM is likely to be a very bad setting for any work load. > It will tend to result in the highest possible number of pages > duplicated in PostgreSQL and OS caches, reducing the cache hit > ratio. More commonly given advice is to start at 25% of RAM, > limited to 2GB on Windows or 32-bit systems or 8GB otherwise. Try > incremental adjustments from that point using your actual workload > on you actual hardware to find the "sweet spot". Some DW > environments report better performance assigning over 50% of RAM to > shared_buffers; OLTP loads often need to reduce this to prevent > periodic episodes of high latency. you are speaking about shared_buffers now. Pavel > > -- > Kevin Grittner > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance