On 10/9/07, Radhika S <radhika.sambamurti@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Along with my previous message (slow postgres), I notice the shared buffer
> setting for our production database is set to 1000.
> How much higher can I go? I don't know how much my kernel can take?
A lot higher. How much memory do you have?
> I am running postgres 7.4.6 on Redhat enterprise 3 server.
Unless you've got a very good reason do yourself a favour and upgrade to 8.2.5.