Re: [GENERAL] Questions about tuning on FreeBSD...

2001-09-16 Thread Tom Lane
[ very late comment on this thread ] Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I understand there are two major tuneable parameters: > > - shared buffer cache: which I can think of as a sort of RAM-based > disk cache of recently accessed tables (or parts of tables). Ideally this > would

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about tuning on FreeBSD...

2001-09-14 Thread Christian MEUNIER
What about WAL buffer parameter ? i thought if this buffer is too small, un necessary I/O will occur and slow down performance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Monday 10 September 2001 18:52, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > Hi all - > > I have so

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about tuning on FreeBSD...

2001-09-10 Thread postgres
On Monday 10 September 2001 18:52, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi all - > I have some questions about tuning the various kernel parameters > on FreeBSD. I've read Bruce's article a couple of times and the various > parts of the documentation, but I still have some questions and was hoping > p

[GENERAL] Questions about tuning on FreeBSD...

2001-09-10 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi all - I have some questions about tuning the various kernel parameters on FreeBSD. I've read Bruce's article a couple of times and the various parts of the documentation, but I still have some questions and was hoping people here could confirm/deny my assumptions. The machine in quest