On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Kevin Grittner > <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote: >> If we go with such a formula, I think 32 MB would be a more >> appropriate divisor than 128 MB. Even on very large machines where >> 32 CLOG buffers would be a clear win, we often can't go above 1 or 2 >> GB of shared_buffers without hitting latency spikes due to overrun >> of the RAID controller cache. (Now, that may change if we get DW >> in, but that's not there yet.) 1 GB / 32 is 32 MB. This would >> leave CLOG pinned at the minimum of 8 buffers (64 KB) all the way up >> to shared_buffers of 256 MB. > > That seems reasonable to me.
likewise (champion bikeshedder here). It just so happens I typically set 'large' server shared memory to 256mb. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers