DATABASE ENGINEERING
Tuning PostgreSQL shared_buffers
Updated by Clustrix Admin · May 21, 2026 · 7 views
The default 128MB is wrong for any production workload.
# In postgresql.conf:\nshared_buffers = 8GB # 25% of 32GB RAM\neffective_cache_size = 24GB # 75% of RAM
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