Re: [PERFORM] Stalls on PGSemaphoreLock

2014-03-25 Thread Ray Stell
On Mar 25, 2014, at 8:46 AM, Matthew Spilich wrote: > The symptom: The database machine (running postgres 9.1.9 on CentOS 6.4) is > running a low utilization most of the time, but once every day or two, it > will appear to slow down to the point where queries back up and clients are > unable

Re: [PERFORM] Really really slow select count(*)

2011-02-06 Thread Ray Stell
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 11:48:50AM +0100, felix wrote: > BRUTAL > Did the changes work in your test environment? -- 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] Postgres insert performance and storage requirement compared to Oracle

2010-10-25 Thread Ray Stell
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:39:30AM -0700, Divakar Singh wrote: > Thanks Ray, > Already seen that, but it does not tell about storage requirement compared to > Oracle. I find it takes 2 times space than oracle. > > > Best Regards, > Divakar > ______

Re: [PERFORM] Bottleneck?

2009-08-06 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 09:12:22AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Why aren't you using systemtap again? 1. significant solaris responsibilites 2. significant linux responsibilities 3. tool consolidation delusions Can you drive dtace toolkit via systemtap? -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing

Re: [PERFORM] Bottleneck?

2009-08-06 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:01:52AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > dtrace is available on Solaris and Mac OS X and probably a couple > other platforms, but not Linux. I wondered if anyone had given this a go: http://amitksaha.blogspot.com/2009/03/dtrace-on-linux.html -- Sent via pgsql-performanc

Re: [PERFORM] Bottleneck?

2009-08-06 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:50:51PM +1000, Ip Wing Kin John wrote: > (running DTrace tool kit iofile.d script to show I/O wait time by > filename and process) Is the dtrace toolkit a viable product for a linux environment or is it strickly Sun/Oracle? -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (p

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-13 Thread Ray Stell
I had such great hopes for this thread. "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio ..." On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:00:54AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Gregory Stark wrote: > > >In any case I wouldn't think the use case for a feature like this would > >actually apply in the

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL Configuration Tool for Dummies

2007-06-19 Thread Ray Stell
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:49:01AM -0700, Y Sidhu wrote: > On 6/19/07, Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Campbell, Lance writes: > > > >> Francisco and Richard, > >> Why ask about disk or raid? How would that impact any settings in > >> postgresql.conf? > > > >If the user has 2 dis

Re: [PERFORM] Volunteer to build a configuration tool

2007-06-19 Thread Ray Stell
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:35:11PM -0700, Steve Atkins wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2007, at 4:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The tricky bits are going to be defining the problem and creating the > alogrithm to do the maths from input to output. Why not methodically discuss the the alogrithms on

Re: [PERFORM] Feature Request --- was: PostgreSQL Performance Tuning

2007-04-27 Thread Ray Stell
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:40:07PM -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote: > out that many run multiple postmasters or have other uses for the > machines in question), but perhaps it could send a message (email?) > along the lines of "Hey, I'm currently doing this many of X > transactions, against this mu

Re: [PERFORM] How to debug performance problems

2007-02-21 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:09:49AM -0800, Craig A. James wrote: > I hope I didn't give the impression that these were the only thing to look > at ... those four items just popped into my head, because they've come up > repeatedly in this forum. There are surely more things that could be > suspe

Re: [PERFORM] How to debug performance problems

2007-02-21 Thread Ray Stell
I'd like to have a toolbox prepared for when performance goes south. I'm clueless. Would someone mind providing some detail about how to measure these four items Craig listed: 1. The first thing is to find out which query is taking a lot of time. 2. A long-running transaction keeps vacuum from

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] how to plan for vacuum?

2007-01-25 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:04:49AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > It really depends on the system. Most of our systems run anywhere from > 10-25ms. I find that any more than that, Vacuum takes too long. How do you measure the impact of setting it to 12 as opposed to 15? -

Re: [PERFORM] how to plan for vacuum?

2007-01-25 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:29:20PM +0900, Galy Lee wrote: > so what is the principle to set them? > - keep dead space lower than some disk limit > - or keep the garbage rate lower than fillfactor > or any other general principle? How do you measure "dead space" and "garbage rate?" I'm a newbe