Re: [HACKERS] improvements to pgtune

2011-05-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
FYI, I can help if you need javascript assistance. --- Greg Smith wrote: Shiv wrote: So my exams are over now and am fully committed to the project in terms of time. I have started compiling a sort of personal todo

Re: [HACKERS] improvements to pgtune

2011-05-08 Thread Greg Smith
Shiv wrote: So my exams are over now and am fully committed to the project in terms of time. I have started compiling a sort of personal todo for myself. I agree with your advice to start the project with small steps first. (I have a copy of the code and am trying to glean as much of it as I

Re: [HACKERS] improvements to pgtune

2011-05-06 Thread Shiv
Hi Greg, So my exams are over now and am fully committed to the project in terms of time. I have started compiling a sort of personal todo for myself. I agree with your advice to start the project with small steps first. (I have a copy of the code and am trying to glean as much of it as I can) I

Re: [HACKERS] improvements to pgtune

2011-04-28 Thread Shiv
That's some great starting advice there. I have a couple of final exams in the next 36 hours. Will get to work almost immediately after that. I will definitely take small steps before going for some of the tougher tasks. I would of-course like this conversation to go on, so I can see a more

Re: [HACKERS] improvements to pgtune

2011-04-27 Thread Greg Smith
Shiv wrote: On the program I hope to learn as much about professional software engineering principles as PostgreSQL. My project is aimed towards extending and hopefully improving upon pgtune. If any of you have some ideas or thoughts to share. I am all ears!! Well, first step on the

Re: [HACKERS] improvements to pgtune

2011-04-27 Thread Greg Smith
Daniel Farina wrote: It seems like in general it lacks a feedback mechanism to figure things out settings from workloads, instead relying on Greg Smith's sizable experience to do some arithmetic and get you off the ground in a number of common cases. To credit appropriately, the model used

Re: [HACKERS] improvements to pgtune

2011-04-27 Thread Joshua Berkus
Every time I've gotten pulled into discussions of setting parameters based on live monitoring, it's turned into a giant black hole--absorbs a lot of energy, nothing useful escapes from it. I credit completely ignoring that idea altogether, and using the simplest possible static settings