Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD

2007-11-16 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:06:11 -0500 "Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007 10:56 AM, Dave Dutcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know about that. There are times when it is the right > > plan: > > Agreed. IMHO, there's nothing wrong with nested-loop join as long >

Re: [PERFORM] Shared Buffer setting in postgresql.conf

2007-10-10 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:20:02 -0500 "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In 7.4, using 25% is often too high a setting for it to handle well, > and the practical useful maximum is usually under 10,000 > shared_buffers, and often closer to 1,000 to 5,000 Scott - interesting reply. Is this

Re: [PERFORM] SQL Monitoring

2007-10-10 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:41:49 +0200 Tomáš Vondra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually we wrote something similar as pgfounie was not as nice as > today, at that time (2005] - you can find that tool on > http://opensource.pearshealthcyber.cz/. Actually I'm working on a > complete rewrite of th

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Help - What did I do wrong?

2007-10-04 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:03:07 -0500 "Kevin Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's kind of silly to tell PostgreSQL that its total cache space is > 1 pages when you've got more than that in shared buffers plus > all that OS cache space. Try something around 285000 pages for > effective_cac

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Help - What did I do wrong?

2007-10-04 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:19:22 -0500 "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need to see examples of what's slow, including explain analyze > output for slow queries. Also a brief explanation of the type of > load your database server is seeing. I.e. is it a lot of little > transactions, mo

[PERFORM] Tuning Help - What did I do wrong?

2007-10-04 Thread Josh Trutwin
We have a pretty busy linux server running postgres 8.1.4, waiting to upgrade until 8.3 to avoid dump/restoring twice. # cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 3704217600 3592069120 1121484800 39460864 2316271616 Swap: 2516918272 270336 251664