Re: shared_buffers in 8.3 w/ lots of RAM on dedicated PG machine

From: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
To: Joshua D(dot) Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Peter Schuller <peter(dot)schuller(at)infidyne(dot)com>
Subject: Re: shared_buffers in 8.3 w/ lots of RAM on dedicated PG machine
Date: 2008-02-15 19:46:48
Message-ID: 5801B3E8-BE50-4DD9-A8CA-AEEDA3FA4B72@myemma.com
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On Feb 15, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

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> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:37:10 -0600
> Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> wrote:
>> (welll, forced
>> to) migrate to a new system with a sane drive configuration. The
>> old set up was done horribly by a sysadmin who's no longer with us
>> who set us up with a RAID5 array with both the data and xlogs both
>> mirrored across all of the disks with no spares.
>
> Is the admin still with us? Or is he fertilizer? I have some know some
> great gardeners from Jersey...

Heh, he's definitely no long with us although not in the sense that
he's now "pushin' up daisies"...

Erik Jones

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