On Wed, 20 May 2009, Kobby Dapaah wrote:

shared_buffers = 2048MB
effective_cache_size = 5400MB

You should consider seriously increasing effective_cache_size. You might also double or quadruple shared_buffers from 2GB, but going much higher may not buy you much--most people seem to find diminishing returns increasing that beyond the 10GB range.

bgwriter_delay = 10ms
bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 0

I found that bg_writer_delay doesn't really work so well when set to this small. It doesn't actually matter right now though, because you're turning the background writer off by setting brwriter_lru_maxpages=0. Just wanted to point this out because if you increase that later it may pop up as a concern, small values for the delay make it more likely you'll need to increase the multiplier to a higher value for background writing to work well.

Robert's message already mentions the other things you should consider, particularly work_mem.

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