On Tuesday 24 Jun 2003 8:39 am, Michael Mattox wrote: > I'd like to get some feedback on my setup to see if I can optimize my > database performance. My application has two separate applications: > > The first application connects to websites and records the statistics in > the database. Websites are monitored every 5 or 10 minutes (depends on > client), there are 900 monitors which comes out to 7,800 monitorings per > hour. [snip] > There is a serious > performance constraint here because unlike a webserver, this application > cannot slow down. If it slows down, we won't be able to monitor our sites > at 5 minute intervals which will make our customers unhappy.
Others are discussing the performance/tuning stuff, but can I make one suggestion? Don't log your monitoring info directly into the database, log straight to one or more text-files and sync them every few seconds. Rotate the files once a minute (or whatever seems suitable). Then have a separate process that reads "old" files and processes them into the database. The big advantage - you can take the database down for a short period and the monitoring goes on. Useful for those small maintenance tasks. -- Richard Huxton ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
