Re: R: [GENERAL] DB on mSATA SSD

2015-04-23 Thread Jim Nasby
On 4/23/15 8:36 AM, Job wrote: Hello, thank you first of all for your wonder help! Tomas, regarding: There are ways to make the writes less frequent, both at the database and OS level. We don't know what's your PostgreSQL config, but making the checkpoints less frequent and tuning the

Re: R: [GENERAL] DB on mSATA SSD

2015-04-23 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 04/23/15 15:36, Job wrote: Hello, thank you first of all for your wonder help! Tomas, regarding: There are ways to make the writes less frequent, both at the database and OS level. We don't know what's your PostgreSQL config, but making the checkpoints less frequent and tuning the

Re: R: [GENERAL] DB on mSATA SSD

2015-04-23 Thread William Dunn
Additional things to consider for decreasing pressure on the cheap drives: - Another configuration parameter to look into is effective_io_concurrency. For SSD we typically set it to 1 io per channel of controller card not including the RAID parity drives. If you decrease this value

R: [GENERAL] DB on mSATA SSD

2015-04-23 Thread Job
Hello, thank you first of all for your wonder help! Tomas, regarding: There are ways to make the writes less frequent, both at the database and OS level. We don't know what's your PostgreSQL config, but making the checkpoints less frequent and tuning the kernel/mount options may help a lot. We