Re: [PERFORM] Why shared_buffers max is 8GB?

2014-03-26 Thread Markella Skempri
Thanks Martin, However this is a database dedicated server and nothing much else is running on it. Also, I never saw this happening with 9.2 – but I can’t vouch for the size of files that I was uploading. From: Martin French Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 1:32 PM To: Markella Skempri Cc

Re: [PERFORM] Why shared_buffers max is 8GB?

2014-03-26 Thread Markella Skempri
I wanted to follow up from this question. I’m running on 9.3.4 My DB server has 32GB ram so I have assigned 8GB shared_buffer_memory. It is quite a big db but with not much traffic. When there is traffic, it’s usually big. Lately, the kernel has been killing the postmaster for having assigned t