On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote:
You're supposed to tune the appropriate values considering the
workload
the machine is going to handle. "man tuning" has some additional
information, but without describing what kind of tasks you plan to do
with this machine with 14GB of RAM, nobody is going to be able to
provide you with really specific advice...
Good point. :-)
I intend to deploy this system as a database server running Postgresql
8.1. The database is huge (30-40Gb) and can easily grow (it has
gone as
high as 100Gb). I expect as many as 1000 concurrent database
connections
now, and a potential need for scaling this up later.
You should tune the network stack settings towards LAN use (shorter
timeouts, larger send & receive buffers); you should probably tune
down the # of vnodes, adjust SysV shared memory as Postgres recommends:
I'm aware of the SystemV memory tuning issues related to running
Postgres on FreeBSD and I'll address those as soon as I can get the
system to see the RAM.
I tried just installing the stock PAE kernel, but the system still
doesn't even acknowledge the RAM above 4Gb. Is this because I have not
yet performed the tuning?
Update your BIOS and then check the settings; there may be an option
explicitly for PAE, or you might find that tweaking something like
"PCI memory reservation", "4GB memory hole", or "MTRR mapping"
between the options will help make the extra memory appear.
--
-Chuck
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