Re: [PERFORM] Tips Tricks for validating hardware/os

2007-05-23 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
providing a disc IO performance that is SO bad that the server becomes useless during the rebuild) Andreas -- Ursprüngl. Mitteil. -- Betreff:Re: [PERFORM] Tips Tricks for validating hardware/os Von:Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 23.05.2007 05:15 On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stephane

Re: [PERFORM] Tips Tricks for validating hardware/os

2007-05-23 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Stephane Bailliez wrote: Out of curiosity, can anyone share his tips tricks to validate a machine before labelling it as 'ready to use postgres - you probably won't trash my data today' ? Write a little script that runs pgbench in a loop forever. Set your

Re: [PERFORM] Tips Tricks for validating hardware/os

2007-05-23 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 23, 2007, at 2:32 AM, Andreas Kostyrka wrote: You forgot pulling some RAID drives at random times to see how the hardware deals with the fact. And how it deals with the rebuild afterwards. (Many RAID solutions leave you with worst of both worlds, taking longer to rebuild than a

[PERFORM] Tips Tricks for validating hardware/os

2007-05-22 Thread Stephane Bailliez
Hi, Out of curiosity, can anyone share his tips tricks to validate a machine before labelling it as 'ready to use postgres - you probably won't trash my data today' ? I'm looking for a way to stress test components especially kernel/disk to have confidence 0 that I can use postgres on top

Re: [PERFORM] Tips Tricks for validating hardware/os

2007-05-22 Thread Alexander Staubo
On 5/22/07, Stephane Bailliez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of curiosity, can anyone share his tips tricks to validate a machine before labelling it as 'ready to use postgres - you probably won't trash my data today' ? I'm looking for a way to stress test components especially kernel/disk to

Re: [PERFORM] Tips Tricks for validating hardware/os

2007-05-22 Thread PFC
Out of curiosity, can anyone share his tips tricks to validate a machine before labelling it as 'ready to use postgres - you probably won't trash my data today' ? I'm looking for a way to stress test components especially kernel/disk to have confidence 0 that I can use postgres on top of it.