[GENERAL] Write performance on a large database

2011-06-09 Thread Håvard Wahl Kongsgård
Hi, I have performance issues on very large database(100GB). Reading from the database is no problem, but writing(or heavy writing) is a nightmare. I have tried tuning postgresql, but that does not seem to improving the writing performance. To improve the write performance, what are my options?

Re: [GENERAL] Write performance on a large database

2011-06-09 Thread Vick Khera
2011/6/9 Håvard Wahl Kongsgård haavard.kongsga...@gmail.com: To improve the write performance, what are my options? add more ram. add more checkpoint segments. get faster disks. reduce the number of indexes you have. split your big tables into smaller partitions. which of these may work

Re: [GENERAL] Write performance on a large database

2011-06-09 Thread tv
Hi, I have performance issues on very large database(100GB). Reading from the database is no problem, but writing(or heavy writing) is a nightmare. I have tried tuning postgresql, but that does not seem to improving the writing performance. To improve the write performance, what are my

Re: [GENERAL] Write performance on a large database

2011-06-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On June 9, 2011 05:15:26 AM Håvard Wahl Kongsgård wrote: Hi, I have performance issues on very large database(100GB). Reading from the database is no problem, but writing(or heavy writing) is a nightmare. I have tried tuning postgresql, but that does not seem to improving the writing

Re: [GENERAL] Write performance on a large database

2011-06-09 Thread Greg Smith
On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Håvard Wahl Kongsgård wrote: Hi, I have performance issues on very large database(100GB). Reading from the database is no problem, but writing(or heavy writing) is a nightmare. I have tried tuning postgresql, but that does not seem to improving the writing performance.