> With modern servers often shipping with 72GB of RAM now, that would make > shared_buffers set to 18GB. This is an absolutely disastrous setting > for PostgreSQL in its current state; I'm seeing servers with that much > RAM that suffer enormous problems with a far lower shared_buffers than > that in production. I'm working on a doc patch to address this better > before 9.0 goes out but I assure you this simple rule of thumb is > already nearing its end of life as a good one for big systems. What's the problem with 18GB shared_buffers exactly? -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
