Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
@postgresql.org [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 i

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
Of Thomas 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

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Walker, James Les wrote on 01.05.2012 16:44: I installed the enterprisedb distribution and immediately saw a 400% performance increase. What exactly is "the enterprisedb distribution"? Are you talking about the the Advanced Server? I would be very surprised if the code base would differ so mu

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: > I installed the enterprisedb distribution and immediately saw a 400% > performance increase. Turning off fsck made it an order of magnitude better. > I'm now peaking at over 400 commits per second. Does that sound right? yeah -- well it

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
Les Cc: Thomas Kellerer; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: > SSD is OCZ-VERTEX3 MI. Controller is LSI SAS2 2008 Falcon. I'm working on > installing EDB. Then I can give you some I

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: > 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. It looks like the ssd doesn't have a nv cache and the raid card is a simple sas hba (which likely isn't doi

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Andy Colson
On 5/1/2012 8:06 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: 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* dange

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
lerer; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: > 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 alr

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: > 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.

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-05-01 Thread Walker, James Les
ce-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Merlin Moncure Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 6:04 PM To: Thomas Kellerer Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Kellerer

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Merlin Moncure wrote on 30.04.2012 23:43: > >> Trying turning off fsync in postgrsql.conf to be sure. > > > This is a dangerous advise. > Turning off fsync can potentially corrupt the database in case of a system > failure (e.g. power outag

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Merlin Moncure wrote on 30.04.2012 23:43: Trying turning off fsync in postgrsql.conf to be sure. This is a dangerous advise. Turning off fsync can potentially corrupt the database in case of a system failure (e.g. power outage). -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performan

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: > 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 dire

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning Postgres 9.1 on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Andy Colson
On 4/30/2012 8:49 AM, Walker, James Les wrote: 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/

[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 a