On Aug 9, 2010, at 11:40 AM, tuanhoanganh wrote:
> What is the name of DW in --type=DW
> Sorry for my English.
>
DW: Data Warehouse
> Tuan Hoang Anh
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/8/9 Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il>
>
>
>
> I just found out about pgtune and am trying it out on my server.
>
>
> I have 2.5 questions:
>
> 1) Are these settings the maximum that the server will handle, if it is
> strictly dedicated to postgresql? Meaning if I am running other stuff on
> the server as well, this would be a bad idea.
>
>
> 1a) If I have some intense plpython stored procedures, do they run in
> the postgresql memory space (ie using the memory settings from the
> postgresql.conf, or do they run under their own memory space and then I
> would have to take that into account when allocating postgresql memory?
>
>
> 2) If it sets my max_connections to 80 and would like to set it at 300,
> what would be the appropriate setting to lower at its expense?
>
>
> Sim
>
> Look at the options available in pgtune
>
>
> -M TOTALMEMORY, --memory=TOTALMEMORY
> Total system memory, will attempt to detect if
> unspecified
> -T DBTYPE, --type=DBTYPE
> Database type, defaults to Mixed, valid options are
> DW, OLTP, Web, Mixed, Desktop
> -c CONNECTIONS, --connections=CONNECTIONS
> Maximum number of expected connections, default
> depends on database type
>
> For question 1, you can set the type of server you want. For question 2, you can pass the -c parameter and it would
adjustthe other parameters. Not sure of 1a though.
>
>
> Amitabh Kant
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>
--Regards,
Vibhor