Re: [HACKERS] Offering tuned config files

2003-02-15 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
No, not really - I can do some more testing with pgbench to see what happens though...I'll do it on monday Chris On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In postgresql.conf.sample-writeheavy you have: > > commit_delay = 1 > > Is this still nee

Re: [HACKERS] Offering tuned config files

2003-02-14 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 07:41, Manfred Koizar wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:24:23 +0200, Daniel Kalchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >The default [cache] on BSD systems is 10% of the total RAM, so on a 256MB machine >this > >would be ~26MB or effective_cache_size = 32000. > > I was a bit too L

Re: [HACKERS] Offering tuned config files

2003-02-14 Thread Tom Lane
Manfred Koizar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In postgresql.conf.sample-writeheavy you have: > commit_delay = 1 > Is this still needed with "ganged WAL writes"? Tom? I doubt that the current options for grouped commits are worth anything at the moment. Chris, do you have any evidence ba

Re: [HACKERS] Offering tuned config files

2003-02-14 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:24:23 +0200, Daniel Kalchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The default [cache] on BSD systems is 10% of the total RAM, so on a 256MB machine >this >would be ~26MB or effective_cache_size = 32000. I was a bit too Linux-minded, where every peace of memory not needed for anythin

Re: [HACKERS] Offering tuned config files

2003-02-14 Thread Daniel Kalchev
>>>Manfred Koizar said: > effective_cache_size = 2 (~ 160 MB) should be more adequate for a > 256 MB machine than the extremely conservative default of 1000. I > admit that the effect of this change is hard to benchmark. A way too > low (or too high) setting may lead the planner to wrong

Re: [HACKERS] Offering tuned config files

2003-02-14 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:12:50 +0800, "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here's a stab at some extra conf files. Feel free to shoot them down. No intent to shoot anything down, just random thoughts: effective_cache_size = 2 (~ 160 MB) should be more adequate for a 256 MB mac

[HACKERS] Offering tuned config files

2003-02-13 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
OK, Here's a stab at some extra conf files. Feel free to shoot them down. If we can come up with at least _some_ alternative files that we can put somewhere for them to see when postgres is installed, then at least people can see what variables will affect what... I didn't see the point of a 'w