> 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. So how much is the reasonal upper limit of shared_buffers at this point? If it's obvious, should we disable or warn to use more than that number? -- 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