Re: [PERFORM] benchmark woes and XFS options

2011-08-08 Thread mark
> -Original Message- > From: Greg Smith [mailto:g...@2ndquadrant.com] > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 9:42 PM > To: mark > Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] benchmark woes and XFS options > > I think your notion that you have an HP CCISS driver in this older >

Re: [PERFORM] Suspected Postgres Datacorruption

2011-08-08 Thread Greg Smith
Sumeet Jauhar wrote: Our application is running on Postgres 7.4.X . I agree that this is a very old version of Postgres and we should have upgraded . It's important to know the .X here. The latest 7.4 is 7.4.30: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/release.html If you're running a

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.4 memory related parameters

2011-08-08 Thread Greg Smith
Kevin Grittner wrote: Claire Chang wrote: shared_buffers = 32GB I seem to remember seeing some benchmarks showing that performance falls off after 10GB or 20GB on that setting. Not even quite that high. I've never heard of a setting over 10GB being anything other than worse th

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres performance on Linux and Windows

2011-08-08 Thread Greg Smith
Dusan Misic wrote: I had done some testing for my application (WIP) and I had executed same SQL script and queries on real physical 64-bit Windows 7 and on virtualized 64-bit CentOS 6. Both database servers are tuned with real having 8 GB RAM and 4 cores, virtualized having 2 GB RAM and 2 v

Re: [PERFORM] benchmark woes and XFS options

2011-08-08 Thread Greg Smith
I think your notion that you have an HP CCISS driver in this older kernel that just doesn't drive your card very fast is worth exploring. What I sometimes do in the situation you're in is boot a Linux distribution that comes with a decent live CD, such as Debian or Ubuntu. Just mount the susp

[PERFORM] benchmark woes and XFS options

2011-08-08 Thread mark
Hello PG perf junkies, Sorry this may get a little long winded. Apologies if the formatting gets trashed. Also apologies if this double posts. (I originally set it yesterday with the wrong account and the message is stalled - so my bad there) if someone is a mod and it's still in the wait queue

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL 9.0.1 on Windows performance tunning help please

2011-08-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
tuanhoanganh wrote: > I can not change the query because it is generate by SymmetricDS > program. So I only can create index on table and change config of > postgres to tunning the query. Is there any way to do that? I'm not familiar with SymetricDS. Would it be possible for you to create a V

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL 9.0.1 on Windows performance tunning help please

2011-08-08 Thread tuanhoanganh
Thanks for your help. But I can not change the query because it is generate by SymmetricDS program. So I only can create index on table and change config of postgres to tunning the query. Is there any way to do that? Sorry for my English Tuan Hoang ANh On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Kevin Grit