sort mem size

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#1david blood
davidjblood@yahoo.com

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
Thanks in advance for your help
David

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: david blood (#1)
Re: sort mem size

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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