[ADMIN] OS monitoring tools I should be using?

2005-10-20 Thread Ron Mayer
Is there a good place that summarizes the OS tools I should be using to monitor postgresql servers on various machines? On *nix machines I have sar/sysstat stuff constantly logging stuff; but on Win* machines I don't know what the equivalent should be. Any recommendations? For interactive monit

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql DB on a live cd

2003-11-20 Thread Ron Mayer
temporary space) so /base/[whatevernumber]/pgsql_tmp should be a symlink to something on the ramdisk as well. (Kinda off-topic -- anecdotally it feels to me that some queries go faster if I put /pgsql_tmp on a different device & disk controller. If I verify this I'll post result

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql DB on a live cd

2003-11-20 Thread Ron Mayer
Lucio wrote: Hi, I'am trying to create a demo cd (knoppix) with a jdbc application. This application uses a static (read-only, no insert, modify or delete) 200MB postgresql db, so can't put pgsql/data/base and pgsql/data/pg_xlog in ramdisk. One thing I don't think I saw mentioned yet I think

Re: [ADMIN] run httpd and postgresql on different machines ?

2005-01-18 Thread Ron Mayer
Chuming Chen wrote: I want to set up a web site using apache httpd, php and postgresql. From the performance point of view, which architecture is better? 1) Run httpd and postgresql on the same machine; 2) Run postgresql on seperate machine. My concern is that the machine I am going to run htt

[ADMIN] Does anyone have a script to monitor if FSM settings are sufficient?

2005-01-29 Thread Ron Mayer
I may be implementing a database at a customer's site that would ideally run administration free for a year or so -- or at least be able to have scripts detect proactively if they'd need to call us for support before the system starts behaving poorly. Is there a way to parse the output of "vacuum"

Re: [ADMIN] Best practice - Vacuum. Replication suggestions and pg vs mysql

2005-03-17 Thread Ron Mayer
Tom Lane wrote: David B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 15minute lock is a long time. There's no lock, unless you are using VACUUM FULL which you shouldn't. Or, I believe, if he has any GIST indexes (such as tsearch or postgis ones). At least it seems normal vacuum locks GIST indexes for quite some ti

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL, INC. Support

2005-03-22 Thread Ron Mayer
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Chris Hoover wrote: Also, are there any other good companies to consider for support? http://techdocs.postgresql.org/companies.php Any reason Fujitsu (http://fastware.com.au/postgresql_support.html) isn't on that list? I think it adds quite a bit of credibility when I tell

Re: [ADMIN] Stable Release?

2008-02-21 Thread Ron Mayer
Gergely CZUCZY wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:53:35AM -0500, Carol Walter wrote: >> A colleague told me that the latest stable release of PostgreSQL is 8.1.x. >> I thought it was 8.2.4. What is the latest stable release? >> I thought there was a problem with autovacuum in the earlier rele

Re: [ADMIN] Latest postgres stable version

2008-02-26 Thread Ron Mayer
Tom Lane wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Suresh Gupta VG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: May I know what is the stable pgsql release and latest? This topic has been addressed very recently, see this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2008-02/msg00238.php Yeah - and from t

Re: [ADMIN] 8.3.5 broken after power fail SOLVED

2009-02-21 Thread Ron Mayer
Naomi Walker wrote: > Other than disaster tests, how would I know if I have an system that > lies about fsync? Well, the linux kernel tries to detect it on bootup and will give messages like this: %dmesg | grep 'disabling barriers' JBD: barrier-based sync failed on md1 - disabling barriers J

Re: [ADMIN] Updating a very large table

2009-04-24 Thread Ron Mayer
Kevin Grittner wrote: > Chris Browne wrote: > >> I'd suggest adding an index > > The OP said the table had 15 indexes already. I would guess one of > those could be used. Perhaps it has a primary key > >> update table1 set new_column = [whatever calculation] >> where new_column is

Re: [ADMIN] hardware information

2009-09-17 Thread Ron Mayer
Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:58 AM, std pik wrote: >> Hello all.. >> I'm using PostgreSQL 8.3.. >> How can I get information about the hardware utilization: >> - CPU usage. >> - Disk space. >> - Memory allocation. >> thank you. > > Dude, there was a whole thr

Re: [ADMIN] ANALYZE not working?

2003-01-06 Thread Ron Mayer
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Jeff Boes wrote: > > [...] Suddenly [...] ANALYZE isn't working properly (it is recording > pg_class.reltuples far lower than the actual row count). I had the same problem recently... http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2002-08/msg00015.php where "vacuum analyze" and "

Re: [ADMIN] deadlock problem in Ad serving..

2003-01-20 Thread Ron Mayer
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > > Bhuvan A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Error:...deadlock detected... > > ... You can overcome this by locking the table in share row > > exclusive mode also... > > ...use shorter transactions (one per page, not one per several pages). Hmm... with his qu

Re: [ADMIN] deadlock problem in Ad serving..

2003-01-20 Thread Ron Mayer
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > > If I understood correctly, he's tracking webpage hits; so the updates > are going to correspond to the sequence in which visitors move to > different webpages. Ah... I was thinking he was counting banners served within a single page (perhaps a banner on to

Re: [ADMIN] Are 50 million rows a problem for postgres ?

2003-09-09 Thread Ron Mayer
> Hi all, i work in a telco and i have huge ammount of data, (50 million) > but i see a lack of performance at huge tables with postgres, > are 50 million rows the "limit" of postgres ? (with a good performance) I have worked on a datawarehouse (postgresql 7.3) with a pretty standard star schema