----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nick Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: Re: pg_autoconfig.pl
> Nick, > > > Josh have you managed to put together the rest of the calculations yet? > > Given that I spent most of November working on the PR for the 7.4 release, > I've just started to think about it. As you can see, I'm thinking about > dovetailing pg_avd and pg_autoconf. > > The difficult thing is to figure out settings for "bad" hardware setups. Like > a 5GB database on a PIII500 + 256mb running 4 other pieces of major software > (I've acctually seen this). Or a 500/minute OLTP database on a machine > with 1 fixed disk. > > All the variables are going into a hash array, right? Yep that rights.$sys is the array name. And there are loads of different keys for the hash. I will try and get a listing out of the script sometime. Nick ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
