From: Peter Eisentraut Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:00:00 +0000 (-0500) Subject: doc: Remove claim about large shared_buffers on Windows X-Git-Tag: REL_10_BETA1~1344 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=81c52728f82be5303ea16508255e948017f4cd87;p=postgresql doc: Remove claim about large shared_buffers on Windows Testing has shown that it is no longer correct. From: Tsunakawa, Takayuki Reviewed-by: amul sul Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F5EE995@G01JPEXMBYT05/ --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml index bcfe2fded2..b1c5289fcc 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml @@ -1316,11 +1316,6 @@ include_dir 'conf.d' On systems with less than 1GB of RAM, a smaller percentage of RAM is appropriate, so as to leave adequate space for the operating system. - Also, on Windows, large values for shared_buffers - aren't as effective. You may find better results keeping the setting - relatively low and using the operating system cache more instead. The - useful range for shared_buffers on Windows systems - is generally from 64MB to 512MB.