From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:30:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note to the shared memory sizing table about needing to use page count in
X-Git-Tag: REL8_4_BETA1~538
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5434e469868a198824df6198733e4fc57f72ce12;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

Add note to the shared memory sizing table about needing to use page count in
shared_buffers and wal_buffers, not size in bytes.  Per discussion.
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index f40899e0d60..c48ffa57afa 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.422 2008/11/20 11:48:26 mha Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.423 2008/12/16 19:30:43 alvherre Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter Id="runtime">
  <title>Operating System Environment</title>
@@ -1124,6 +1124,16 @@ set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=32
      </tbody>
     </tgroup>
    </table>
+
+   <note>
+    <para>
+     The multipliers for <varname>shared_buffers</> and
+     <varname>wal_buffers</> should be the number of buffers, not the
+     amount in bytes.  To find out the number of shared or wal buffers, divide
+     the amount in bytes by <xref linkend="guc-block-size"> and
+     <xref linkend="guc-wal-block-size">, respectively.
+    </para>
+   </note>
   </sect2>