Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps the shared_buffers should only be set to 50% of the maximum size > probed?
I think it's reasonable to expect the DBA to make any adjustments needed for changes in environment. Partly this is because I don't see any defensible way to do otherwise --- your 50% slop figure is without foundation in terms of what might really be going on --- and partly because we'd be handicapping ourselves unnecessarily if there *aren't* any subsequent changes in environment. On machines where shared memory actually gets used for anything by default, I think that the default limits are likely to be fairly sane. If shared memory is tight, then very likely Postgres is the only thing on the machine that's going to want it. We might as well use what we can get. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])