I hear you. I'm just not having a good day today. My biggest problem is my project/time ration is way too high.
I agree with you, though. If I can get it to work on 150Gb, I can probably get it to work on 355Gb. I just may have to change the manner in which I perform these queries. Mike Diehl, Network Monitoring Tool Devl. Sandia National Laboratories. (505) 284-3137 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: September 20, 2001 1:50 PM > To: Diehl, Jeffrey; 'Josh Berkus'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Diehl, Jeffrey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP! > > > Diehl, > > > Um no, I just need a smaller problem to solve. The database worked > > quite > > well when the problem was half this size. > <snip> > > could do with 60 day's...!" And they are right, if it can > be done... > > If it > > can't, I'll tell them and they will understand. > > What I'm saying is, based on your description, you need a lot > of hand-on > performance tuning help. Someone who knows the pgsql performance > parameters and can experiment with tweaking and tuning to > avoid swamping > the memory of the machine(s) you're running on. Because > that's what it > sounds like the problem is. > > However, that sort of help will take some paid consultant time and > possibly hardware. I think that if you can run a query on 150gb of > data, you can probably run it on 355gb ... you just need some help > performance tuning. But I don't think general advice on a > list is gonna > do it, y'know? > > -Josh > > ______AGLIO DATABASE SOLUTIONS___________________________ > Josh Berkus > Complete information technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and data management solutions (415) 565-7293 > for law firms, small businesses fax 621-2533 > and non-profit organizations. San Francisco > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]