On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm running pgsql on an m1.large EC2 instance with 7.5gb available memory. > > The free command shows 7gb of free+cached. My understand from the docs is that I should dedicate 1.75gb to shared_buffers (25%) and set effective_cache_size to 7gb. > > Is this correct? I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10, e.g. It's a reasonable start. However, if you consistently using less than that in aggregate then lowering it is fine. What's your work_mem and max_connections set to? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
