Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your entire buffer cache is mostly filled with dirty buffers with high > usage counts, you are in for a long wait when you need new buffers > allocated and your next checkpoint is going to be traumatic.
Do you need to increase shared_buffers in such case? I think the condition (mostly buffers have high usage counts) is very undesirable for us and near out-of-memory. We should deal with such cases, of course, but is it a more effective solution to make room in shared_buffers? Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org