Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results on a new server

2010-06-29 Thread Greg Smith
Craig James wrote: synchronous_commit = off full_page_writes = off I don't have any numbers handy on how much turning synchronous_commit and full_page_writes off improves performance on a system with a battery-backed write cache. Your numbers are therefore a bit inflated against similar one

Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results on a new server

2010-06-29 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Craig James wrote: > On 6/25/10 12:03 PM, Greg Smith wrote: >> >> Craig James wrote: >>> >>> I've got a new server and want to make sure it's running well. >> >> Any changes to the postgresql.conf file? Generally you need at least a >> moderate shared_buffers (1GB

Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results on a new server

2010-06-28 Thread Craig James
On 6/25/10 12:03 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Craig James wrote: I've got a new server and want to make sure it's running well. Any changes to the postgresql.conf file? Generally you need at least a moderate shared_buffers (1GB or so at a minimum) and checkpoint_segments (32 or higher) in order for t

Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results on a new server

2010-06-25 Thread Greg Smith
Craig James wrote: I've got a new server and want to make sure it's running well. Any changes to the postgresql.conf file? Generally you need at least a moderate shared_buffers (1GB or so at a minimum) and checkpoint_segments (32 or higher) in order for the standard pgbench test to give good

Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results on a new server

2010-06-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Craig James wrote: > I've got a new server and want to make sure it's running well.  Are these > pretty decent numbers? > > 8 cores (2x4 Intel Nehalem 2 GHz) > 12 GB memory > 12 x 7200 SATA 500 GB disks > 3WARE 9650SE-12ML RAID controller with BBU >  WAL on ext2, 2

[PERFORM] pgbench results on a new server

2010-06-25 Thread Craig James
I've got a new server and want to make sure it's running well. Are these pretty decent numbers? 8 cores (2x4 Intel Nehalem 2 GHz) 12 GB memory 12 x 7200 SATA 500 GB disks 3WARE 9650SE-12ML RAID controller with BBU WAL on ext2, 2 disks: RAID1 500GB, blocksize=4096 Database on ext4, 8 disks:

Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results interpretation?

2005-11-02 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 21:16 +1100, Gavin Sherry wrote: > connections are updating the branches table heavily. As an aside, did you > initialise with a scaling factor of 10 to match your level of concurrency? Yep, I did. > that. The hackers list archive also contains links to the testing Mark > Wo

Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results interpretation?

2005-11-02 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi Gavin, > > Thanks for answering. > > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 20:16 +1100, Gavin Sherry wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > > 1. Is there a repository somewhere that shows results, using and > > > documenting different kinds of

Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results interpretation?

2005-11-01 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Gavin, Thanks for answering. On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 20:16 +1100, Gavin Sherry wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > 1. Is there a repository somewhere that shows results, using and > > documenting different kinds of hard- and software setups so that I can > > compare my resu

Re: [PERFORM] pgbench results interpretation?

2005-11-01 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to optimize my Debian Sarge AMD64 PostgreSQL 8.0 > installation, based on the recommendations from "the Annotated > POSTGRESQL.CONF Guide for > PostgreSQL" > (http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html). To se

[PERFORM] pgbench results interpretation?

2005-11-01 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I am trying to optimize my Debian Sarge AMD64 PostgreSQL 8.0 installation, based on the recommendations from "the Annotated POSTGRESQL.CONF Guide for PostgreSQL" (http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html). To see the result of the recommendations I use pgbench from po

[PERFORM] Pgbench results

2003-12-06 Thread Rob Sell
Greetings all, I'm wondering is there a website where people can submit their pgbench results along with their hardware and configuration's? If so where are they at? I have yet to find any. I think this could be a very useful tool not only for people looking at setting up a new server but for peo