Shridhar Daithankar kirjutas E, 18.08.2003 kell 19:02: > On 18 Aug 2003 at 18:52, Hannu Krosing wrote: > > My own experimentation also got numbers in 9k/sec range (on a quad > > 1.3GHz Xeons, 2GM mem, 50MB/sec raid) when doing 10-20 parallel runs of > > ~1000 inserts/transaction. > > > > Performance dropped to ~300/sec (at about 60M rows) when I added an > > index (primary key) - as I did random inserts, the hit rates for index > > pages were probably low. > > I was loading a geographic data couple of months back.. It was 3GB data when > loaded in postgresql.
With or without indexes ? > I tried loading data first and creating index later. It ran out of available > 9GB space. So I created index on an empty table and started loading it. It was > slow but at least finished after 3 hours... Co-incidentally oracle had same > problems as well. So creating index beforehand remains only option at times, it > seems. Tom remarked that it shouldn't have made difference but apparently it > does.. Tom just fixed some memory leaks on array indexing the other day. Could there be something like that on geographic types ? > You mentioned parallel runs and still getting 9K/sec. Was that overall 9K or > per connection? Overall. But notice that my setup was (a little) slower per processor. > If it is former, probably WAL is hit too hard. You could do > some additional testing by having WALit's own disk. I guess that todays IDE disks are about the same speed (~50MB/sec) as my test RAID was. I run multiple parallel runs to have a chance to use all 4 processors (but IIRC it was heavyly IO-bound) as well as to better use writing time on WAL platters (not to wait for full rotation on each platter) -------------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly