Re: first postgrreSQL tunning

Merlin Moncure wrote:

>>Hi there! I'm doing my first tunning on my postgreSQL, my server is
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>>a small app, largest table shall never exceed 10k rows, and less than
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>1k
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>>transactions/day. So I don't think I should run out of resources. The
>>machine is a Fedora Core 3.0 with 1gb ran and kernel 2.6. I'm thinking
>>in having 50 connections limit, so besides semaphores should I do
>>anything special on kernel parameters. The app is so small that during
>>late night time almost no one will access so, I'm thinking in full
>>vacuuming it every day at 1:00AM.
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>The biggest danger with small databases is it's easy to become
>overconfident...writing poor queries and such and not properly indexing.
>50 users can hit your system pretty hard if they all decide to do
>something at once.  Aside from that, just remember to bump up work_mem a
>bit for fast joining.
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>Your application may be small, but if it is written well and works, it
>well inevitably become larger and more complex, so plan for the future
>:)
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>Merlin
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Thanks Merlin, besides what I said of tunning anything else I should
care looking at?