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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> It would be useful to get distro input on this.  Do they override the
> kernel default at boot time?  If so, what do they do?

Red Hat provide a sysctl tuning config file and I believe things like the
Oracle install docs cover this.

There is btw no earthly reason why a postgres package can't include a
tool to do this or postgres can't check and update it as part of its
own set up and config file options


Alan