Re: [ADMIN] DRBD with Postgres: Good or Bad?

2004-12-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2004 03:55 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I'm considering using the DRBD network block device for a Postgres high > avilability solution. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of > setup? Yes, many people use this kind of setup. It works fine. -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: [ADMIN] Need Help in Taking Backups

2004-12-07 Thread Gourish Singbal
Thanks, i think Slony-I might be an answer to my questions. But need to explore Slony-I before saying anything. Has Anybody found any dificulties in implementing hotback, using Slony-I. Thoughts would be of great help. regards Gourish. On 7 Dec 2004 04:17:21 GMT, Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTE

[ADMIN] Backup is too slow

2004-12-07 Thread John Jensen
Hi all, I'm a bit unhappy with the time it takes to do backup of my PG7.4.6 base. I have 13GB under the pg/data dir and it takes 30 minutes to do the backup. Using top and iostat I've figured out that the backup job is cpu bound in the postmaster process. It eats up 95% cpu while the disk is at 10

[ADMIN] Running sql files

2004-12-07 Thread Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10)
Title: Running sql files Hi, I just wanted to know how to disable the results being displayed on the screen. When I try the following command - $psql dbname < sqlfile The results of  the command are displayed on to the screen. In one file I am trying to populate a table with values ( There

Re: [ADMIN] Running sql files

2004-12-07 Thread Kevin Izzet
Hi, You could try running the command like this $psql dbname < sqlfile > /dev/null I believe this  should work fine Regards Kevin Izzet Database / Unix / Linux  Administrator Tel:     (Code)+44(0)1475 655606 Fax:    (Code)+44(0)1475 637755 Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pradeepkumar,

Re: [ADMIN] Backup is too slow

2004-12-07 Thread Spiegelberg, Greg
CPU may be thottled because it's performing the backup, gzip and split all at once. May I suggest this. /home/postgres/postgresql/bin/pg_dump -h --compress=9 -f dumpfile.gz $1 split --bytes 500m dumpfile.gz dumpfile.gz. If that takes too long or clobbers the system... /home/postgres/pos

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Re: [ADMIN] Backup is too slow

2004-12-07 Thread John Jensen
Hi Greg & others. I run this on a 4 cpu smp box (Dell PE6650+EMC AX100) so I already offload pg_dump, gzip and split to other cpu's. Top confirms this: postmaster = 95% cpu ie. it uses one cpu completely. Unless I can get postmaster to do less work (that's what I'm looking for) or run multiple thre