# About db\_shared\_buffers & unicorn\_workers

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-db-shared-buffers-unicorn-workers/146603
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 2, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-db-shared-buffers-unicorn-workers/146603 "2020-04-02T18:22:28Z")
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#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-db-shared-buffers-unicorn-workers/146603/2 "2020-04-02T18:24:44Z")

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`db_shared_buffers` should be no more than 25% of your system memory, which would be 1024MB, assuming that nothing else is running on that box.

`unicorn_workers` is two per core, so 4 is fine.

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