diff --git a/contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh b/contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh
index acd1c2a4ede7c62f1ed70bc02415bc0ba0f23ce8..298cc93f20b70dcd394e3735f2db97b69fe0c156 100755
--- a/contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh
+++ b/contrib/linux/postgres.init.csh
@@ -14,13 +14,13 @@
 PGACCOUNT="postgres"		# the postgres account (you called it something else?)
 POSTMASTER="postmaster"		# this probably won't change
 
-USE_SOCKET="yes"		# "no" to disable Unix sockets on localhost
+USE_SOCKET="yes"		# "no" to enable tcp/ip(remote) access
 PGSOCKETFILE="/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"
 USE_SYSLOG="yes"		# "yes" to enable syslog, "no" to go to /tmp/postgres.log
 FACILITY="local5"		# can assign local0-local7 as the facility for logging
 PGLOGFILE="/tmp/postgres.log"	# only used if syslog is disabled
 
-PGOPTS="-i -B 1024" #  -S -o '-Fe'"
+PGOPTS="" #-B 1024 -S -o '-Fe'
 if [ ${USE_SOCKET} = "no" ]
 then
 	PGOPTS="-i ${PGOPTS}"	# -i to enable TCP/IP rather than Unix socket
diff --git a/contrib/linux/postgres.init.sh b/contrib/linux/postgres.init.sh
index abeafd3bac35ee5754058a9a18b64f23e2e42fe9..ed538953d45138cce68ad081ecda426245d95319 100755
--- a/contrib/linux/postgres.init.sh
+++ b/contrib/linux/postgres.init.sh
@@ -69,24 +69,24 @@ PGLOGFILE="/tmp/postgres.log"
 #
 # only used if syslog is disabled
 #
-PGOPTS="-B 256"
+PGOPTS="" # -B 256
 #
 # The B option sets the number of shared buffers
 #
 # Add the "-i" option to enable TCP/IP sockets in addition
 # to unix domain sockets.  This is needed for Java's JDBC
 #
-# PGOPTS="-i -B 256"
+# PGOPTS="-i"
 #
 # Add the -D option if you want to ovverride the PGDATA 
 # environment variable defined in
 #
-# PGOPTS="-B 256 -D/opt/pgsql/data
+# PGOPTS="-D/opt/pgsql/data
 #
 # Add the -p option if you would like the listener to
 # attach to a port other than the one configured (5432?)
 #
-# PGOPTS="-B 256 -D/opt/pgsql_beta/data -p 5433"
+# PGOPTS="-D/opt/pgsql_beta/data -p 5433"
 #
 
 # Source function library.
diff --git a/src/test/performance/start-pgsql.sh b/src/test/performance/start-pgsql.sh
index 8ef3f7aa8ebf844de7c7b3412526d75881d13542..6da4c4332a015ce7dd333c336418eb97e0811d82 100755
--- a/src/test/performance/start-pgsql.sh
+++ b/src/test/performance/start-pgsql.sh
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 # Please choose amount of sort memory (-S XXX) as appropriate
 # for your system: more is better, but swapping breaks performance!
 
-exec postmaster -B 256 '-o -S 2048' -S
+exec postmaster '-o -S 2048' -S