Re: [PERFORM] I/O increase after upgrading to 8.3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> Alexander Staubo wrote: > Kevin Grittner wrote: >> Could you show the non-commented lines from old and new >> postgresql.conf files, please? > > Attached. The differences are not performance-related, as far as I > can see, aside from the additional of "synchronous_commit = off". You shoul

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] GIST versus GIN indexes for intarrays

2009-02-13 Thread Tom Lane
Teodor Sigaev writes: >> seems to me that we ought to get rid of intarray's @> and <@ operators >> and have the module depend on the core anyarray operators, just as we >> have already done for = and <>. Comments? > Agree, will do. Although built-in anyarray operators have ~N^2 behaviour > whil

Re: [PERFORM] I/O increase after upgrading to 8.3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Alexander Staubo
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Could you show the non-commented lines from old and new > postgresql.conf files, please? Attached. The differences are not performance-related, as far as I can see, aside from the additional of "synchronous_commit = off". Alexander. 82.c

Re: [PERFORM] I/O increase after upgrading to 8.3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> Alexander Staubo wrote: > When I compare the correct graph, however, it's apparently that I/O > writes have, on average, doubled. Could you show the non-commented lines from old and new postgresql.conf files, please? -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@p

Re: [PERFORM] I/O increase after upgrading to 8.3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Alexander Staubo
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Alexander Staubo wrote: > The upgrade was done with dump/restore using "pg_dump -Fc". The old > database lived on a SAN volume, whereas the new database lives on a > local disk volume. I need to correct myself: The Munin graphs were never set to track the SAN vol

Re: [PERFORM] I/O increase after upgrading to 8.3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Alexander Staubo
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Alexander Staubo wrote: >> After upgrading from 8.2 to 8.3.5, the write load on our database >> server has increased dramatically and inexplicably -- as has the CPU >> usage. > > Did you do a VACUUM ANALYZE of the database after loading

Re: [PERFORM] I/O increase after upgrading to 8.3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> Alexander Staubo wrote: > After upgrading from 8.2 to 8.3.5, the write load on our database > server has increased dramatically and inexplicably -- as has the CPU > usage. Did you do a VACUUM ANALYZE of the database after loading it? Without the database VACUUM, the first read of any page

Re: [PERFORM] dissimilar drives in Raid10 , does it make difference ?

2009-02-13 Thread Matthew Wakeling
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: I have received Dell Poweredge 2950 MIII with 2 kind of drives. I cant' make out the reason behind it , does it make any difference in long run or in performance the drives are similar in overall characteristics but does the minor differences if wil

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] GIST versus GIN indexes for intarrays

2009-02-13 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:12:53PM +0300, Teodor Sigaev wrote: >> The short-term workaround for Rusty is probably to create his GIN >> index using the intarray-provided gin__int_ops opclass. But it > Right >> seems to me that we ought to get rid of intarray's @> and <@ operators >> and have the mo

[PERFORM] dissimilar drives in Raid10 , does it make difference ?

2009-02-13 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
I have received Dell Poweredge 2950 MIII with 2 kind of drives. I cant' make out the reason behind it , does it make any difference in long run or in performance the drives are similar in overall characteristics but does the minor differences if will cause any problem ? scsi0 : LSI Logic SAS based

[PERFORM] I/O increase after upgrading to 8.3.5

2009-02-13 Thread Alexander Staubo
After upgrading from 8.2 to 8.3.5, the write load on our database server has increased dramatically and inexplicably -- as has the CPU usage. Here's a Munin graph of iostat showing the sudden increase in blocks written/sec: http://purefiction.net/paste/Totals-iostatwrite1-week.png We expected