Re: default resource limits

[daveg <daveg(at)sonic(dot)net>]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 03:38:56PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >What numbers would you like? If what I suggested seems odd, how about 
> >targets of 400 connections, 4000 shared_buffers and 200,000 
> >max_fsm_pages?
> 
> 
> Here's a patch that does what I had in mind. On my modest workstation it 
> tops out at 400 connections and 2500/125000 
> shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages. An idle postmaster with these settings 
> consumed less than 4% of the 380Mb of memory, according to top, making 
> it still dwarfed by X, mozilla, apache and amavisd among other memory hogs.

I don't understand the motivation for so many connections by default, it
seems wasteful in most cases.

-dg

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David Gould                      daveg(at)sonic(dot)net
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