From f1795463bf503a6fca909d77f598f641f9349f56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shay Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:05:20 -0800 Subject: Add a note about huge pages to our Postgres doc (#11467) * Add note to postgres doc about hugepages * Newsfragment --- docs/postgres.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/postgres.md b/docs/postgres.md index 083b0aaff0..e4861c1f12 100644 --- a/docs/postgres.md +++ b/docs/postgres.md @@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ performance: Note that the appropriate values for those fields depend on the amount of free memory the database host has available. +Additionally, admins of large deployments might want to consider using huge pages +to help manage memory, especially when using large values of `shared_buffers`. You +can read more about that [here](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/kernel-resources.html#LINUX-HUGE-PAGES). ## Porting from SQLite -- cgit 1.4.1