[PERFORM] Hard Drive Usage for Speeding up Big Queries

2008-01-28 Thread Alex Hochberger
We are trying to optimize our Database server without spending a fortune on hardware. Here is our current setup. Main Drive array: 8x 750 GB SATA 2 Drives in a RAID 10 Configuration, this stores the OS, Applications, and PostgreSQL Data drives. 3 TB Array, 2 TB Parition for PostgreSQL.

[PERFORM] Configuring a Large RAM PostgreSQL Server

2007-11-29 Thread Alex Hochberger
Does anyone have any white papers or basic guides for a large RAM server? We are consolidating two databases to enable better data-mining that currently run on a 4 GB and 2 GB machine. The data issues on the 4 GB machine are numerous, things like create index fail and update queries

Re: [PERFORM] Configuring a Large RAM PostgreSQL Server

2007-11-29 Thread Alex Hochberger
. But many large queries are getting Out of Memory errors. Alex On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Richard Huxton wrote: Alex Hochberger wrote: Does anyone have any white papers or basic guides for a large RAM server? We are consolidating two databases to enable better data-mining that currently