Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:41:07PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:

I had cranked things up a bit from the standard install.

shared_buffers = 15000                  # min 16 or max_connections*2, 8KB
each #temp_buffers = 1000 # min 100, 8KB each
#max_prepared_transactions = 50         # can be 0 or more
work_mem = 10000                        # min 64, size in KB
maintenance_work_mem = 128000           # min 1024, size in KB
max_stack_depth = 4096                  # min 100, size in KB


You didn't say anything about how much memory you have, but you need to
be careful with *work_mem, as being too agressive can run the machine
out of memory.

I have 4Gb of memory and the machine is pretty much a devoted database server. We use it mainly for data warehousing and mining; there are rarely more than 2 active connections and never more than 5 total, so I have felt pretty comfortable with leaving work_mem pretty generous. I will likely have to change that if the machine becomes more active.

Sean

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