On 11/20/10 6:11 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: > True, but I think that changing these from their defaults is not > considered to be a dark art reserved for kernel hackers, i.e they are > something that sysadmins are expected to tweak to suite their work > load, just like the shmmax and such.
I disagree. Linux kernel hackers know about these kinds of parameters, and I suppose that Linux performance experts do. But very few sysadmins, in my experience, have any idea. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers