Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Initdb does not currently make any attempt to discover the extent of
> physical or virtual memory, it simply tries to start postgres with
> certain shared_buffer settings, starting at 4000, and going down until
> we get a success.
> max_fsm_pages is
Teodor Sigaev wrote:
current default of 1000 pages (8Mb) seems really pretty silly for modern
machines; we could certainly set it to 10 times that without problems,
and maybe much more. Thoughts?
May be, set by default effective_cache_size equal to number of shared
buffers?
If pgsql is conf
current default of 1000 pages (8Mb) seems really pretty silly for modern
machines; we could certainly set it to 10 times that without problems,
and maybe much more. Thoughts?
May be, set by default effective_cache_size equal to number of shared buffers?
If pgsql is configured to use quarter o
* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Russ Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on pgsql-general:
> > Thank you: the problem was the effective_cache_size (which I hadn't
> > changed from the default of 1000). This machine doesn't have loads of
> > RAM, but I knocked it up to 65536 and now the query u
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 17:14 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> Thank you: the problem was the effective_cache_size (which I hadn't
> >> changed from the default of 1000). This machine doesn't have loads of
> >> RAM, but I knocked it up to 65536 and now the query uses the index,
> >> without having
Thank you: the problem was the effective_cache_size (which I hadn't
changed from the default of 1000). This machine doesn't have loads of
RAM, but I knocked it up to 65536 and now the query uses the index,
without having to change the statistics.
Considering recent discussion about how 8.2 is
Russ Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on pgsql-general:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 23:39 -0400, Jim Nasby wrote:
>> Also make sure that you've set effective_cache_size
>> correctly (I generally set it to total memory - 1G, assuming the
>> server has at least 4G in it).
> Thank you: the problem wa
