>>>>> "RT" == Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RT> hmm... i wonder what would happen if you pushed your sort_mem higher... RT> on some of our development boxes and upgrade scripts, i push the RT> sort_mem to 102400 and sometimes even higher depending on the box. this RT> really speeds up my restores quit a bit (and is generally safe as i make RT> sure there isn't any other activity going on at the time) Ok... just two more tests to run, no big deal ;-) RT> another thing i like to do is turn of fsync, as if the system crashes in RT> the middle of reload i'm pretty sure i'd be starting all over anyway... I'll test it and see what happens. I suspect not a big improvement on a hardware RAID card with 128Mb backed up cache, though. But never say never! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend