Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > There have been tests that demonstrate that you can raise the buffers > to a certain point which is optimal and after that it just doesn't > help [1]. They peg optimal size at 5-10% of memory. > [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-10/msg00110.php
Note however that it's reasonable to think that 8.1 may do better than 8.0 did at performing well with large values of shared_buffers, primarily because we got rid of the StrategyDirtyBufferList overhead: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-10/msg00112.php It'd be interesting to repeat the above-mentioned tests with 8.1. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
