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Re: slow queries, possibly disk io

Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>

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From: Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg@aon.at>
To: Josh Close <narshe@gmail.com>
Cc: POSTGRES-PERFORMANCE <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-05-31T18:18:13Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
>On 5/31/05, Martin Fandel <martin.fandel@alphyra-evs.de> wrote:
>> In the documentation of
>> http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html
>> is the shared_buffers set to 1/3 of the availble RAM.

Well, it says "you should never use more than 1/3 of your available RAM"
which is not quite the same as "it is set to 1/3."  I'd even say, never
set it higher than 1/10 of your available RAM, unless you know what
you're doing and why you're doing it.

Servus
 Manfred