[HACKERS] Query regarding postgres lock contention - Followup

2011-10-05 Thread Hamza Bin Sohail
In addition to the previous post, My postgres version is 8.3.7 >Hi there, > >Just to let you know, I'm not a database expert by any means. >I have configured dbt-2 with postgres and created a database with 4000 >warehouses, >150 customers etc. The database size is over 8G. I am aware that lo

[HACKERS] Query regarding postgres lock contention

2011-10-05 Thread Hamza Bin Sohail
Hi there, Just to let you know, I'm not a database expert by any means. I have configured dbt-2 with postgres and created a database with 4000 warehouses, 150 customers etc. The database size is over 8G. I am aware that lock contention can be checked with lockstat (and with pg_locks ? ) but I

Re: [HACKERS] would hw acceleration help postgres (databases in general) ?

2010-12-10 Thread Hamza Bin Sohail
Thanks alot for all the replies. Very helpful, really appreciate it. - Original Message - From: "Jeff Janes" To: "Hamza Bin Sohail" Cc: Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] would hw acceleration help postgres (databases in general)

[HACKERS] would hw acceleration help postgres (databases in general) ?

2010-12-10 Thread Hamza Bin Sohail
Hello hackers, I think i'm at the right place to ask this question. Based on your experience and the fact that you have written the Postgres code, can you tell what a rough break-down - in your opinion - is for the time the database spends time just "fetching and writing " stuff to memory and

[HACKERS] large page query

2010-11-29 Thread Hamza Bin Sohail
Hi, I posted this email on the other postgres lists but did not get a reply. So as a last resort, I came here. I hope somebody can help. I am looking into the impact of large page sizes on the performance of commercial workloads e.g databases,webserver,virtual machines etc. I was wondering if