Curt Sampson wrote:
>
> Just going back through old mail, I notice this. So I'm not the only one
> with this opinion. I've seen, at least twice in the last week or so,
> people make the mistake of devoting about half their memory to postgres
> shared memory buffers (the wost thing you can do!). Would someone care
> to go around and find all the spots that talk about this and update them
> to have more reasonable advice?
I advise in my hardware tuning guide that it be increased until paging
starts, then reduce it, and start around 25%. Is that OK?
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