Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread Evgeny Gridasov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/postgres: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:56:32 +0100 11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread 11
On 2006-03-17, at 15:50, Evgeny Gridasov wrote: template1=# select version(); version -- --- PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:56:58AM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote: > 64 bit binaries usually run marginally slower than 32 bit binaries. This depends a bit on the application, and what you mean by "64 bit" (ie. what architecture). Some specialized applications actually benefit from having a 64-bit nati

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:24 AM, Evgeny Gridasov wrote: Yesterday we recieved a new server 2xAMD64(2core x 2chips = 4 cores) 8GB RAM and RAID-1 (LSI megaraid) I've maid some tests with pgbench (scaling 1000, database size ~ 16Gb) First of all, I'd like to mention that it was strange to see that th

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 6:24 am, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Evgeny Gridasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've maid some tests with pgbench If possible, tune the background writer with your actual application code under normal load. Optimal tuning is going to vary based on usage pat

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread PFC
I got this : template1=# select version(); version -- PostgreSQL 8.1.2 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu,

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread Evgeny Gridasov
template1=# select version(); version - PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debia

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread PFC
First of all, I'd like to mention that it was strange to see that the server performance degraded by 1-2% when we changed kernel/userland to x86_64 from default installed i386 userland/amd64 kernel. The operating system was Debian Linux, filesystem ext3. Did you use postgres compiled for

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-17 Thread Evgeny Gridasov
Yesterday we recieved a new server 2xAMD64(2core x 2chips = 4 cores) 8GB RAM and RAID-1 (LSI megaraid) I've maid some tests with pgbench (scaling 1000, database size ~ 16Gb) First of all, I'd like to mention that it was strange to see that the server performance degraded by 1-2% when we changed ke

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:15 pm, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Evgeny Gridasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > please, could you post other settings from your postgresql.conf? Everything in postgresql.conf which is not commented out: listen_addresses = '*' # what IP interface(s)

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-16 Thread Evgeny Gridasov
Kevin, please, could you post other settings from your postgresql.conf? interested in: bgwriter_delay shared_buffers checkpoint_segments checkpoint_timeout wal_buffers On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:43:45 -0600 "Kevin Grittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We were seeing clusters of query timeouts wi

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 1:54 pm, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I then did some calculations, based on the sustained write speed of our >> drive array (as measured by copying big files to it), and we tried >> this: >> >> bgwriter_lru_percent =

Re: [PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> I then did some calculations, based on the sustained write speed of our > drive array (as measured by copying big files to it), and we tried > this: > > bgwriter_lru_percent = 20.0 > bgwriter_lru_maxpages = 200 > bgwriter_all_percent = 10.0 > bgwriter_all_maxpages = 600 > > This almost totally e

[PERFORM] Background writer configuration

2006-03-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
We were seeing clusters of query timeouts with our web site, which were corrected by adjusting the configuration of the background writer. I'm posting just to provide information which others might find useful -- I don't have any problem I'm trying to solve in this regard. The web site gets 1 to