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Re: Offering tuned config files

Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>

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From: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>
To: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
Cc: "PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-14T12:41:59Z
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:24:23 +0200, Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
wrote:
>The default [cache] on BSD systems is 10% of the total RAM, so on a 256MB machine this 
>would be ~26MB or effective_cache_size = 32000.

I was a bit too Linux-minded, where every peace of memory not needed
for anything else can be used as cache.  Thanks for the clarification.
And sorry for my ignorance.

BTW 26MB ~ effective_cache_size = 3200.

Servus
 Manfred