[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, > > Unfornatly, i can't update pgsql to 8.3 since it's not in debian stable.
That's why backports.org was invented :-) Or does can't mean "not allowed to"? > So i'm going to play with work_mem & shared_buffers. > > With big shared_buffers pgsql tells me > shmget(cle=5432001, taille=11183431680, 03600). > so i do "echo 13183431680 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax" ( 10Go + 2Go just > in case) > > but pgsql tells me again that it there's not enought shm.. > How can i compute the go shmmax for my server ? I'm not seeing anything terribly wrong there. Are you hitting a limit with shmall? Oh - and I'm not sure there's much point in having more shared-buffers than you have data. Try much larger work_mem first, I think that's the biggest gain for you. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
