Re: [GENERAL] Shared Buffers

2009-03-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > I believe that op system side buffering can play a role too.  I our case, > the DB server (machine & op sys) caches data that it pulled from disk (not > necessarily from a DB) and also the disk servers do the same.  If a block > was removed f

Re: [GENERAL] Shared Buffers

2009-03-02 Thread Gauthier, Dave
I believe that op system side buffering can play a role too. I our case, the DB server (machine & op sys) caches data that it pulled from disk (not necessarily from a DB) and also the disk servers do the same. If a block was removed from the DB buffer cache to accommodate more recently request

Re: [GENERAL] Shared Buffers

2009-03-02 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ashish Karalkar wrote: > Take a look at > > http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/InsideBufferCache.pdf > > http://postgresql.mirrors-r-us.net/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/hw_performance/node3.html Wouldn't it be nice, to have any presentation's

Re: [GENERAL] Shared Buffers

2009-03-02 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Siddharth Shah wrote: Hello All, How Postgres Maintains data in Shared Buffer Does It maintains queried data in memory or table data and Next time how postgres fetch data from memory rather than disk Which algorithm is used for storing data how data is indexed in shared buffers Thanks Sidd

Re: [GENERAL] Shared buffers

2006-07-28 Thread Jim Nasby
Note that starting in 8.0/8.1, you can sometimes get very large gains by setting shared_buffers very high; 1/2 of memory or more. On Jul 27, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Shoaib Mir wrote: Go to http://www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList/ and see the shared_buffers settings section there. Thanks, -- Shoa

Re: [GENERAL] Shared buffers

2006-07-27 Thread Shoaib Mir
Go to http://www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList/ and see the shared_buffers settings section there.Thanks,-- Shoaib MirEnterpriseDB ( www.enterprisedb.com)On 7/27/06, Christian Rengstl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hi list,just wanted to ask what is a "good/reasonable" value for the shared_bufferes vari

Re: [GENERAL] shared buffers

2004-10-25 Thread Tom Lane
Glenn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the performance issue with setting shared_buffers to something like 45? > In doing some timing on my system, I cannot tell any difference with 45 versus 1000. What are you timing exactly? Almost every benchmark I've ever seen is much happier wi