On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:30:16AM -0500, Vick Khera wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM, AI Rumman <rummandba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Server Specification: > > dual-core 4 cpu > > RAM: 32 GB > > OS: Centos > > What will be good settings for DB parameters such as shared_buffers, > > checkpoint_segment and etc. > > I'll take this one ... :) On my 24GB quad-core Opteron servers > running FreeBSD 8.1, with big external fibre connected RAID array, I > use the following changes relative to the default 9.0.1 > postgresql.conf. You probably don't need to adjust the prepared > transactions setting, unless you use them :-) > > The default config is pretty darned good, compared to what used to > ship with older releases like 8.1 :) > > listen_addresses = '*' > max_connections = 200 > shared_buffers = 4200MB > max_prepared_transactions = 100 # guideline: same number as max_connections This should be either 0 (no 2PC) or the bounded from below by max_connections. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general