Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem
Date: 2014-02-17 16:19:03
Message-ID: 20140217161903.GF18388@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-02-16 21:26:47 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't think anyone objected to increasing the defaults for work_mem
> and maintenance_work_mem by 4x, and a number of people were in favor,
> so I think we should go ahead and do that. If you'd like to do the
> honors, by all means!

Actually, I object to increasing work_mem by default. In my experience
most of the untuned servers are backing some kind of web application and
often run with far too many connections. Increasing work_mem for those
is dangerous.

> I don't really know about cpu_tuple_cost. Kevin's often advocated
> raising it, but I haven't heard anyone else advocate for that. I
> think we need data points from more people to know whether or not
> that's a good idea in general.

FWIW It's a good idea in my experience.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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