Re: [ADMIN] Question on Fragmentations

2007-02-09 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 9. Februar 2007 04:08 Peter Koczan wrote: Case in point, I use xfs as the filesystem running under postgres, and after a few days the major database clusters showed ~90% fragmentation on their respective partitions (which is about a 10 to 1 ratio of file fragments to files). After

Re: [ADMIN] Question on Fragmentations

2007-02-09 Thread Peter Koczan
Michael Monnerie wrote: On Freitag, 9. Februar 2007 04:08 Peter Koczan wrote: Case in point, I use xfs as the filesystem running under postgres, and after a few days the major database clusters showed ~90% fragmentation on their respective partitions (which is about a 10 to 1 ratio of file

Re: [ADMIN] Question on Fragmentations

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Moiz Kothari wrote: What are the reasons of data getting fragmented in postgres? What do you mean by that? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project

Re: [ADMIN] Question on Fragmentations

2007-02-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Moiz Kothari wrote: What are the reasons of data getting fragmented in postgres? What do you mean by that? I am guessing he means filesystem fragmentation. Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support:

Re: [ADMIN] Question on Fragmentations

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Koczan
Moiz Kothari wrote: Hi All, What are the reasons of data getting fragmented in postgres? Do we have any page which explains different scenarios of data getting fragmented? Regards, Moiz Kothari I guess there are two types of fragmentation in play with postgres, internal database

[ADMIN] Question on Fragmentations

2007-02-07 Thread Moiz Kothari
Hi All, What are the reasons of data getting fragmented in postgres? Do we have any page which explains different scenarios of data getting fragmented? Regards, Moiz Kothari