Re: good settings for DB parameters such as shared_buffers, checkpoint_segment in Postrgesql 9

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:30:16AM -0500, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:59 AM, AI Rumman <rummandba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Server Specification:
> >   dual-core 4 cpu
> >   RAM: 32 GB
> >   OS: Centos
> > What will be good settings for DB parameters such as shared_buffers,
> > checkpoint_segment and etc.
>
> I'll take this one ... :)  On my 24GB quad-core Opteron servers
> running FreeBSD 8.1, with big external fibre connected RAID array, I
> use the following changes relative to the default 9.0.1
> postgresql.conf.  You probably don't need to adjust the prepared
> transactions setting, unless you use them :-)
>
> The default config is pretty darned good, compared to what used to
> ship with older releases like 8.1 :)
>
> listen_addresses = '*'
> max_connections = 200
> shared_buffers = 4200MB
> max_prepared_transactions = 100 # guideline: same number as max_connections

This should be either 0 (no 2PC) or the bounded from below by
max_connections.

Cheers,
David.
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