Re: sort mem size - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: sort mem size
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Msg-id 200202280411.g1S4Bnf23551@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to sort mem size  ("David Blood" <davidjblood@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-general
David Blood wrote:
> Does any one have a good idea of what the sort memory is best set at.  I
> have read Bruce suggestions but they are vague and just say make it
> bigger till you don?t have page ins.  I wonder if there is someone who
> knows what a good setting is for a Db with tables that are over 700 MB
> and total DB size of 6GB + ?  The Machine has 2Gb ram with a shrmax
> setting of  1800000000 about 1.6 gb

If there was a simple answer, I would have given one in the article.
Does anyone know a good value?

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