Re: [BUGS] Large shared_buffers freezing computers

2002-03-02 Thread Michael G. Martin
I read an earlier post by Tom where he recommends 1/4 of physical ram. I will go to 1/5 to be safe and I assume it will be ok. I'm guessing my 50% was probably overkill. --Michael Michael G. Martin wrote: > I've had this happen on 2 seperate servers now. > > After reading the docs, I bumped

[BUGS] Large shared_buffers freezing computers

2002-03-01 Thread Michael G. Martin
I've had this happen on 2 seperate servers now. After reading the docs, I bumped up shared_buffers. On one machine with 2G pyhsical ram, I set the param to use 1G of memory ( 131072 value), on another machine with 800M of RAM, I set the value to about 500M ( 64000 ). ipcs shows the correct a