Re: Postgres low end processing.

Stef <svb@ucs.co.za> writes:
> Crawling is ok. Won't differ much from normal operation on a machine
> like that.  Any tips on how to achieve the most diminutive vmem an
> conf settings?

The out-of-the-box settings are already pretty diminutive on current
releases :-(.  In 7.4 you'd likely want to knock back shared_buffers
and max_connections, and maybe the fsm settings if the database is going
to be tiny.

> I tried to figure this out from the docs, and played
> around with backend/storage , but I'm not really winning.

What exactly is failing?  And what's the platform, anyway?

            regards, tom lane