Re: 7.3.1 New install, large queries are slow

On 17 Jan 2003 at 12:33, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> >>> shared_buffers = 131072
> >>
> >> Yipes!  Try about a tenth that much.  Or less.
>
> > Why?  He has 4GB RAM on the machine.
>
> I think a gig of shared buffers is overkill no matter what.
>
> One reason not to crank up shared_buffers "just because you can" is that
> there are operations (such as CHECKPOINT) that have to scan through all
> the buffers, linearly.  I don't *think* any of these are in
> performance-critical paths, but nonetheless you're wasting CPU.  I trust

Assuming that one knows what he/she is doing, would it help in such cases i.e.
the linear search thing, to bump up page size to day 16K/32K?

and that is also the only way to make postgresql use more than couple of gigs
of RAM, isn't it?

Bye
 Shridhar

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