On 7/5/09 11:13 PM, Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Craig Ringer wrote:
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 11:51 -0700, Patvs wrote:
With 4 regular harddisks in RAID0 you get great read/write speeds, but the
SSDs excel in IO/s and a 0.1ms access time.
... but are often really,
On 7/6/09 1:43 AM, Scott Carey sc...@richrelevance.com wrote:
On 7/5/09 11:13 PM, Mark Kirkwood mar...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Craig Ringer wrote:
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 11:51 -0700, Patvs wrote:
There is no reason to go RAID 1 with SSD's if this is an end-user box and
the data is
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Patvspa...@chello.nl wrote:
-4 One a scale from 1 to 10, how significant are the following on
performance increase:
-[ ] Getting a faster harddisk (RAID or a SSD)
-[ ] Getting a faster CPU
-[ ] Upgrading PostgreSQL (8.2 and 8.3) to 8.4
-[ ] Tweaking PostgreSQL
* Craig Ringer (cr...@postnewspapers.com.au) wrote:
What that does mean, though, is that if you don't have significantly
more RAM than a 32-bit machine can address (say, 6 to 8 GB), you should
stick with 32-bit binaries.
I'm not sure this is always true since on the amd64/em64t platforms
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Greg Smithgsm...@gregsmith.com wrote:
6) Normally to change the locale you have to shutdown the database, delete
its data directory, and then run the initdb command with appropriate
options to use an alternate locale. I thought the one-click installer
handled
On 07/06/2009 06:23 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
* Craig Ringer (cr...@postnewspapers.com.au) wrote:
What that does mean, though, is that if you don't have significantly
more RAM than a 32-bit machine can address (say, 6 to 8 GB), you should
stick with 32-bit binaries.
I'm not sure this
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 15:27 -0400, Mark Mielke wrote:
Even if you only have 4 GB of RAM, the 32-bit kernel needs to fight
with low memory vs high memory, whereas 64-bit has a clean address
space.
That's a good point. The cutoff is probably closer to 2G or at most 3G.
Certainly it's madness to
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Craig
Ringercr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
Personally, I'd probably go 64-bit on any reasonably modern machine that
could be expected to have more than 2 or 3 GB of RAM. Then again, I
can't imagine willingly building a production database server for any
I use poker software (HoldemManager) to keep track of the statistics (and
show nice graphs) of millions of poker hand histories.
This software (also PokerTracker 3) imports all the poker hands in
PostgreSQL. The software runs on Windows) only.
All of its users have NORMAL PCs. From single-core
On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 11:51 -0700, Patvs wrote:
I can see two databases in my pgAdmin: postgres and HoldemManager. All the
poker data (about 30 GB of data) is in the HoldemManager database.
Does the quote above (if true?) means, having a 2 Ghz single core or a Xeon
2x quadcore (8x 2 Ghz
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