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Tuning PostgreSQL shared_buffers

Updated by Premium Hosting Admin · Aug 6, 2026 · 85 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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