Basically it goes beyond what ppl would describe as OS holly wars.
If one chooses to go by FreeBSD, then he better be prepared to handle the
burden, both the part that is
imposed by the OS administration itself, as well as the part that is a side
effect of the different base system.
Example of
On 11 Apr 2014, at 8:04, Achilleas Mantzios ach...@matrix.gatewaynet.com
wrote:
Basically it goes beyond what ppl would describe as OS holly wars.
If one chooses to go by FreeBSD, then he better be prepared to handle the
burden, both the part that is
imposed by the OS administration itself,
On 11/04/2014 13:05, Alban Hertroys wrote:
On 11 Apr 2014, at 8:04, Achilleas Mantzios ach...@matrix.gatewaynet.com
wrote:
Basically it goes beyond what ppl would describe as OS holly wars.
If one chooses to go by FreeBSD, then he better be prepared to handle the
burden, both the part that
On 11 Apr 2014, at 12:39, Achilleas Mantzios ach...@matrix.gatewaynet.com
wrote:
I moved this bit of the conversation up as it’s relevant to the OP:
On 11/04/2014 13:05, Alban Hertroys wrote:
On 11 Apr 2014, at 8:04, Achilleas Mantzios ach...@matrix.gatewaynet.com
wrote:
I don't mean to
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:05:43 +0200
Alban Hertroys haram...@gmail.com wrote:
My advice to the OP:
Install FreeBSD on a system to play around with, get a feel for how
it works and whether you like it or not. See how it performs with
Postgres on different file-systems; UFS2 or ZFS - UFS is the
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:16:04 -0400
Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
Curious: Why not consider OpenBSD also?
Or NetBSD.
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On 11/04/2014 15:05, Alban Hertroys wrote:
Although it is getting a bit specific, would you care to elaborate why you would advice strongly against using ports or packages for Postgres on FreeBSD? Because that’s a rather strong statement
you’re making and so far the only argument I’ve seen is
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:15:28 +0300
Achilleas Mantzios ach...@matrix.gatewaynet.com wrote:
pl/java has nothing to do with this. The argument against using
packages/ports for postgresql upgrades, is that upgrades in general
involve :
- reading HISTORY thoroughly and understanding every bit of
On 4 April 2014 11:03, François Beausoleil franc...@teksol.info wrote:
Hi all!
Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues
on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot, between 5
and 50%. Does FreeBSD better schedule I/O, which could
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:36 PM, François Beausoleil
franc...@teksol.info wrote:
Le 2014-04-09 à 16:20, Bruce Momjian a écrit :
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
This highlights a more fundamental problem of the difference between a
workstation-based on OS
On 04/10/14 17:25, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
I'm not wanting to get after anyone here, but I want it on the record
that I am not the source of the above quote discouraging the use of
Ubuntu in a server role. That would be Bruce Momjian. While Bruce is
entitled to his opinion, it's not one I
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil
franc...@teksol.info wrote:
Hi all!
Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues
on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot, between 5
and 50%. Does FreeBSD better schedule I/O, which
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil
franc...@teksol.info wrote:
Hi all!
Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues
on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Christofer C. Bell
christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil
franc...@teksol.info wrote:
Hi all!
Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues
on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to
Le 2014-04-09 à 16:20, Bruce Momjian a écrit :
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
This highlights a more fundamental problem of the difference between a
workstation-based on OS like Ubuntu and a server-based one like Debian
or FreeBSD. I know Ubuntu has a
On Apr 9, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Christofer C. Bell
christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil
franc...@teksol.info wrote:
Hi all!
Does PG perform that much better on
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Steve Atkins st...@blighty.com wrote:
On Apr 9, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Christofer C. Bell
christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil
On 04/09/14 14:46, Scott Marlowe wrote:
I'm not deploying any new distro version that soon. :) I know folks
just putting 12.04 into prod to replace etch and lenny. :)
You can easily get the 3.11.0 kernel on 12.04.4 LTS by installing
the linux-generic-lts-saucy package. IIRC, the fix for the
-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD
Le 2014-04-09 ? 16:20, Bruce Momjian a ?crit :
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
This highlights a more fundamental problem of the difference between a
workstation-based on OS like Ubuntu and a server
On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 09:02:02 PM Brent Wood wrote:
Given the likely respective numbers of each OS actually out there, I'd
suggests BSD is very over-represented in the high uptime list which is
suggestive.
Suggestive of ... sysadmins who don't do kernel updates?
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On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:03 AM, François Beausoleil
franc...@teksol.info wrote:
Our workload is lots of data import, followed by many queries to summarize
(daily and weekly reports). Our main table is a wide table that represents
Twitter and Facebook interactions. Most of our reports work on
FreeBSD is OK if you are experienced. As a system it requires much more
maturity by the admin
than lets say Ubuntu which is targeted at a larger user base.
I'd say, explore your other Linux options first, since you already have
experience with Linux.
FreeBSD requires a much bigger learning
On Apr 4, 2014, at 12:03 AM, François Beausoleil franc...@teksol.info wrote:
I have some performance issues on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve.
iowait varies a lot, between 5 and 50%.
Is the SAN dedicated to this app? I wonder if the i/o, if not related to your
app, is being
Le 2014-04-04 à 08:11, Ray Stell a écrit :
On Apr 4, 2014, at 12:03 AM, François Beausoleil franc...@teksol.info wrote:
I have some performance issues on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve.
iowait varies a lot, between 5 and 50%.
Is the SAN dedicated to this app? I wonder if
As a side note, when we migrated the exact same pgsql 8.3 system from linux
kernel 2.6 to 3.6,
we experienced an almost dramatic slowdown by 6 times.
Linux Kernel's were known to have issues around those dates, i recall.
We had to set synchronous_commit to off, this gave a huge boost ,
but this
Hi all!
Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues on
a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot, between 5 and
50%. Does FreeBSD better schedule I/O, which could alleviate some of the
issues, or not at all? I have no experience administering
On 4/3/2014 9:03 PM, François Beausoleil wrote:
The host is a dedicated hardware machine at online.fr: 128 GB RAM, 2 x 3TB disk
in RAID 1 configuration.
just a passing comment...
3TB disks are 7200rpm and suitable for nearline bulk storage (or desktop
use), not high performance database
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:33 AM, François Beausoleil franc...@teksol.infowrote:
Hi all!
Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance
issues on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot,
between 5 and 50%. Does FreeBSD better schedule I/O, which
Richard Huxton wrote:
Bart McFarling wrote:
We are installing a new Postgresql server, it will not run anything else
but postgresql. We are currently looking at moving from a RHEL 4.0
system to FreeBSD.
Does one OS offer better performace over the other when running
postgresql?
I'd guess the
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:01 +0100, Péter Kovács wrote:
Richard Huxton wrote:
Bart McFarling wrote:
We are installing a new Postgresql server, it will not run anything else
but postgresql. We are currently looking at moving from a RHEL 4.0
system to FreeBSD.
Does one OS offer better
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:12:57 -0600
Bart McFarling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are installing a new Postgresql server, it will not run anything else
but postgresql. We are currently looking at moving from a RHEL 4.0
system to FreeBSD.
Does one OS offer better performace over the other when
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On 11/10/06 02:24, Enrico wrote:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:12:57 -0600
Bart McFarling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are installing a new Postgresql server, it will not run anything else
but postgresql. We are currently looking at moving from a RHEL
Bart McFarling wrote:
We are installing a new Postgresql server, it will not run anything else
but postgresql. We are currently looking at moving from a RHEL 4.0
system to FreeBSD.
Does one OS offer better performace over the other when running
postgresql?
I'd guess the crucial thing will
I had best performance on FreeBSD with his file system.
Look at this link.
http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/hw_performance/node11.html
Is this still accurate 3.75 years later?
I don't know if is still accurate now, but
in my work I've seen that postgres
We are installing a new Postgresql server, it will not run
anything else but postgresql. We are currently looking at moving from a RHEL
4.0 system to FreeBSD.
Does one OS offer better performace over the other when
running postgresql?
Thanks,
Bart
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