Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
What's the problem with 18GB shared_buffers exactly
It's slower than smaller numbers, and if you actually dirty a significant portion of it you can have a checkpoint that takes hours to sync, completely trashing system responsiveness for a good portion of it.
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