Re: confused of buffers and memory settings

On Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 Gerd König wrote:
> The db will be accessed heavily (~20 requests/sec.)
> with a read/write ration of 50:50, yes, a lot of write activity.

Not really heavy, I would say, but maybe your transactions are very big
and produce a lot of I/O.

> I thought of setting "shared_buffers" to 750000 (~6GB) but how
> depends this on the kernel buffer setting in /etc/sysctl.conf (what
> is the interaction between these two settings?).
> I know the variable "shmmax" can be defined, but currently there's no
> such entry.

# Shared Mem Maximum example:
kernel.shmmax = 950123456
# do not allow memory overcommit to prevent database crashes
vm.overcommit_memory=2

> The meaning of "work_mem" / "maintenance_work_mem" and "wal_buffers"
> is also not clear. The maintenance_work_mem influences the size of
> the WAL logs..?!?
> What else are "top performance related" options for the usage
> scenario I described earlier ?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/runtime-config-resource.html

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