Re: [PERFORM] High update activity, PostgreSQL vs BigDBMS

2006-12-29 Thread Alex Turner
You should search the archives for Luke Lonegran's posting about how IO in Postgresql is significantly bottlenecked because it's not async. A 12 disk array is going to max out Postgresql's max theoretical write capacity to disk, and therefore BigRDBMS is always going to win in such a config. You

Re: [PERFORM] High update activity, PostgreSQL vs BigDBMS

2006-12-29 Thread Jeff Frost
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Ron wrote: C= What file system are you using? Unlike BigDBMS, pg does not have its own native one, so you have to choose the one that best suits your needs. For update heavy applications involving lots of small updates jfs and XFS should both be ser

Re: [PERFORM] High update activity, PostgreSQL vs BigDBMS

2006-12-29 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Ron wrote: > C= What file system are you using? Unlike BigDBMS, pg does not have > its own native one, so you have to choose the one that best suits > your needs. For update heavy applications involving lots of small > updates jfs and XFS should both be seriously considered. Actually it has

Re: [PERFORM] Backup/Restore too slow

2006-12-29 Thread Russell Smith
Sebastián Baioni wrote: Thanks for answering. This is my configuration: # - Memory - shared_buffers = 1000# min 16, at least max_connections*2, 8KB each #work_mem = 1024# min 64, size in KB #maintenance_work_mem = 16384# min 1024, size in KB #max_stack_depth = 2048#

Re: [PERFORM] URGENT: Out of disk space pg_xlog

2006-12-29 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 13:13 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > The bottom line is that we know of now cases where a long-running > transaction would delay recycling of the WAL files, so there is > certainly something not understood here. We can see from all of this that a checkpoint definitely didn't

Re: [PERFORM] Backup/Restore too slow

2006-12-29 Thread Sebastián Baioni
Thanks for answering. This is my configuration: # - Memory - shared_buffers = 1000# min 16, at least max_connections*2, 8KB each #work_mem = 1024# min 64, size in KB #maintenance_work_mem = 16384# min 1024, size in KB #max_stack_depth = 2048# min 100, size in KB The PC

Re: [PERFORM] Backup/Restore too slow

2006-12-29 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rebuilding the indexes or integrity confirmations are probably taking > most of the time. > What is your work_mem setting? maintenance_work_mem is the thing to look at, actually. I concur that bumping it up might help. regards, to

Re: [PERFORM] What you would consider as heavy traffic?

2006-12-29 Thread Rod Taylor
Depends on what the query is. If the queries take 3 to 5 days to execute, then 1 query per day on a 4 CPU machine would be at capacity. On 23-Dec-06, at 3:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Everyone, I am having a bit of trouble with a web host, and was wondering as what you would class

Re: [PERFORM] Backup/Restore too slow

2006-12-29 Thread Rod Taylor
Rebuilding the indexes or integrity confirmations are probably taking most of the time. What is your work_mem setting? On 22-Dec-06, at 9:32 AM, Sebastián Baioni wrote: Hi, We have a database with one table of 10,000,000 tuples and 4 tables with 5,000,000 tuples. While in SQL Server it tak

[PERFORM] Postgresql Configutation and overflow

2006-12-29 Thread Fabricio Peñuelas
Good day, I have been reading about the configuration of postgresql, but I have a server who does not give me the performance that should. The tables are indexed and made vacuum regularly, i monitor with top, ps and pg_stat_activity and when i checked was slow without a heavy load overage. B

[PERFORM] Need Help

2006-12-29 Thread JM
how can i get the disk usage for each table? can i do it via SQL? Thanks, Mailing-Lists ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[PERFORM] performance implications of binary placement

2006-12-29 Thread Bob Dusek
Hello all, I've been running performance tests on various incantations of Postgres on/off for a month or so. And, I've just come across some unexpected results. When I start my Postgres build as such: # (Scenario 1) ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --bindir=/usr/bin --includedir=/us

[PERFORM] What you would consider as heavy traffic?

2006-12-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey Everyone, I am having a bit of trouble with a web host, and was wondering as what you would class as a high level of traffic to a database (queries per second) to an average server running postgres in a shared hosting environment (very modern servers). Many Thanks in Advance, Oliver ---

[PERFORM] Backup/Restore too slow

2006-12-29 Thread Sebastián Baioni
Hi, We have a database with one table of 10,000,000 tuples and 4 tables with 5,000,000 tuples. While in SQL Server it takes 3 minutes to restore this complete database, in PostgreSQL it takes more than 2 hours. The Backup takes 6 minutes in SQLServer and 13 minutes (which is not a problem) We ar

Re: [PERFORM] High update activity, PostgreSQL vs BigDBMS

2006-12-29 Thread Arnau
Hi all, A= go through each query and see what work_mem needs to be for that query to be as RAM resident as possible. If you have enough RAM, set work_mem for that query that large. Remember that work_mem is =per query=, so queries running in parallel eat the sum of each of their work_mem's.

Re: [PERFORM] High update activity, PostgreSQL vs BigDBMS

2006-12-29 Thread Ron
At 12:46 AM 12/28/2006, Guy Rouillier wrote: I don't want to violate any license agreement by discussing performance, so I'll refer to a large, commercial PostgreSQL-compatible DBMS only as BigDBMS here. I'm trying to convince my employer to replace BigDBMS with PostgreSQL for at least some o