Re: [PERFORM] Need suggestions on kernel settings for dedicated FreeBSD/Postgresql machine

2009-08-09 Thread Culley Harrelson
I will definitely look into this. I suspect I need to tune my kernel settings first though... culley On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Culley Harrelson wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I manage a freeBSD server that is dedicate

[PERFORM] Need suggestions on kernel settings for dedicated FreeBSD/Postgresql machine

2009-08-07 Thread Culley Harrelson
Hi Everyone, I manage a freeBSD server that is dedicated to postgresql. The machine has 4 gigs of ram and there is a single database powering a web application that is hosted on a neighboring machine. The web application is mostly reading the database but there are considerable writes and I don'