Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
Exactly, if turning off fsync gives me 100 commits/sec then I know where my bottleneck is and I can attack it. Keep in mind though that I already turned off synchronous commit -- *really* dangerous -- and it didn't have any effect. -- Les -Original Message- From:

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
SSD is OCZ-VERTEX3 MI. Controller is LSI SAS2 2008 Falcon. I'm working on installing EDB. Then I can give you some I/O numbers. -- Les -Original Message- From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmonc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 9:07 AM To: Walker, James Les Cc: Thomas Kellerer

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
to need a controller that can defer fsync requests from the host because it has some sort of battery backup that guarantees the full write. -- Les -Original Message- From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmonc...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 9:43 AM To: Walker, James Les Cc: Thomas

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
Kellerer Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 1:00 PM To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows Walker, James Les wrote on 01.05.2012 16:44: I installed the enterprisedb distribution and immediately saw a 400% performance increase. What exactly

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
[mailto:pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Walker, James Les Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 3:14 PM To: 'Thomas Kellerer'; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows Yes. I didn't know the proper vernacular :-) It is very likely that the default

[PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Walker, James Les
I'm trying to benchmark Postgres vs. several other databases on my workstation. My workstation is running 64 bit Windows 7. It has 12 gb of RAM and a W3550 @ 3 Ghz. I installed Postgres 9.1 using the windows installer. The data directory is on a 6Gb/s SATA SSD. My application is multithreaded