Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
There has been an error in the tests the dataset size was not 2*MEM it was 0.5*MEM i shall redo the tests and post results. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Carey
On 2/17/09 11:52 PM, "Rajesh Kumar Mallah" wrote: the raid10 voulme was benchmarked again taking in consideration above points Effect of ReadAhead Settings disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 xfs_ra256403647, 545026 all tests o

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Carey
One thing to note, is that linux's md sets the readahead to 8192 by default instead of 128. I've noticed that in many situations, a large chunk of the performance boost reported is due to this alone. On 2/18/09 12:57 AM, "Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz" wrote: have you tried hanging bunch of raid1 to l

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Carey
On 2/18/09 12:31 AM, "Scott Marlowe" wrote: > Effect of ReadAhead Settings > disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 > > xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 > xfs_ra256403647, 545026 all tests on sda6 > xfs_ra512411357, 564769 > xfs_ra1024 404392,

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2009/2/18 Rajesh Kumar Mallah : > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz > wrote: >> have you tried hanging bunch of raid1 to linux's md, and let it do >> raid0 for you ? > > Hmmm , i will have only 3 bunches in that case as system has to boot > from first bunch > as system has onl

Re: [PERFORM] TCP network cost

2009-02-18 Thread Gregory Stark
"Ross J. Reedstrom" writes: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:20:02AM -0700, Rusty Conover wrote: >> >> Try running tests with ttcp to eliminate any PostgreSQL overhead and >> find out the real bandwidth between the two machines. If its results >> are also slow, you know the problem is TCP relat

Re: [PERFORM] Call of function inside trigger much slower than explicit function call

2009-02-18 Thread Alexander Gorban
> Well, that does sound weird... can you post the full definition for > the images_meta table? Are there any other triggers on that table? > Is it referenced by any foreign keys? How fast is the insert if you > drop the trigger? > > ...Robert Yes, weird. Something was wrong in my own code, aft

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: > have you tried hanging bunch of raid1 to linux's md, and let it do > raid0 for you ? Hmmm , i will have only 3 bunches in that case as system has to boot from first bunch as system has only 8 drives. i think reducing spindles will red

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
have you tried hanging bunch of raid1 to linux's md, and let it do raid0 for you ? I heard plenty of stories where this actually sped up performance. One noticeable is case of youtube servers. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your su

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: >>> Effect of ReadAhead Settings >>> disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 >>> > SEQUENTIAL >>> xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 >>> xfs_ra256403647, 545026 all tests on sda6 >>> xfs_ra512411357

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
>> Effect of ReadAhead Settings >> disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 >> SEQUENTIAL >> xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 >> xfs_ra256403647, 545026 all tests on sda6 >> xfs_ra512411357, 564769 >> xfs_ra1024 404392, 431168 >> >> looks like 512

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: > the raid10 voulme was benchmarked again > taking in consideration above points > Effect of ReadAhead Settings > disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 > > xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 > xfs_ra256403647, 545026