Re: [ADMIN] Re: HSA (Highly Scalable Architecture) Distribution andreplication

1999-11-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
> hi.. > > > What! That makes no sense. A compiled kernel is different from a > > non-compiled one? Someone compiled it once. He said he didn't make any > > changes to the FreeBSD kernel except recompile. I will be shocked to > > hear he sees any difference in a kernel recompile. > > no, wh

[ADMIN] My pgsql server is crashing.... How do I find out why.

1999-11-01 Thread Darvin Zuch
Good Morning All! I'm testing moving stuff off of MS-SQL Server onto pgsql so far so good... Thanks for everyones help. When I run a particulare SQL select statement (with 5 tables, 5 inner joins) my pgsql server almost always crashes. the error I get is ... pqReadData() -- backend closed the

Re: [ADMIN] Re: HSA (Highly Scalable Architecture) Distribution and replication

1999-11-01 Thread Lamar Owen
"Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > hi.. > > > What! That makes no sense. A compiled kernel is different from a > > non-compiled one? Someone compiled it once. He said he didn't make any > > changes to the FreeBSD kernel except recompile. I will be shocked to > > hear he sees any difference in a ke

Re: [ADMIN] Re: HSA (Highly Scalable Architecture) Distribution and replication

1999-11-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi.. > What! That makes no sense. A compiled kernel is different from a > non-compiled one? Someone compiled it once. He said he didn't make any > changes to the FreeBSD kernel except recompile. I will be shocked to > hear he sees any difference in a kernel recompile. no, what i'm saying is

Re: [ADMIN] Re: HSA (Highly Scalable Architecture) Distribution andreplication

1999-11-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
> one of the reasons for this is that the FreeBSD kernel was > compiled from source and the Linux one wasn't.. redhat's stock kernels are > "jack of all trades, masters of none" and 'optimized' for 386. heh. if you What! That makes no sense. A compiled kernel is different from a non-compiled o

Re: [ADMIN] Re: HSA (Highly Scalable Architecture) Distribution and replication

1999-11-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi... > The speed of your disks makes a difference also. No matter how much > cache you have you are still going to hit your disks. I would say that > LVD SCSI is a minimum. agreed.. we use UW SCSI (though on a RAID 5.. bit of a performance hit, but worth it for the reliability) and see great

[ADMIN] Re: HSA (Highly Scalable Architecture) Distribution andreplication

1999-11-01 Thread hal Lynch
> First off RAM helps a LOT. 192MB RAM is not much. Look at "top" >and keep adding it until the cache and buffer sizes are quite large. >I would think 512MB or 1GB of RAM is what you need. The idea is >to let the OS (Linux) cache a good partion of your database in >RAM. Postgres has a buffer