Re: [PERFORM] cache whole data in RAM

2004-02-04 Thread William Yu
David Teran wrote: Hi, we are trying to speed up a database which has about 3 GB of data. The server has 8 GB RAM and we wonder how we can ensure that the whole DB is read into RAM. We hope that this will speed up some queries. regards David ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [PERFORM] cache whole data in RAM

2004-02-03 Thread Chris Trawick
Put it on a RAM disk. chris On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 07:54, David Teran wrote: > Hi, > > we are trying to speed up a database which has about 3 GB of data. The > server has 8 GB RAM and we wonder how we can ensure that the whole DB > is read into RAM. We hope that this will speed up some queries

Re: [PERFORM] cache whole data in RAM

2004-02-03 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
David Teran wrote: we are trying to speed up a database which has about 3 GB of data. The server has 8 GB RAM and we wonder how we can ensure that the whole DB is read into RAM. We hope that this will speed up some queries. Neither the DBa or postgresql has to do anything about it. Usually OS cac

Re: [PERFORM] cache whole data in RAM

2004-02-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 13:54:17 +0100, David Teran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > we are trying to speed up a database which has about 3 GB of data. The > server has 8 GB RAM and we wonder how we can ensure that the whole DB > is read into RAM. We hope that this will speed up some queri

[PERFORM] cache whole data in RAM

2004-02-03 Thread David Teran
Hi, we are trying to speed up a database which has about 3 GB of data. The server has 8 GB RAM and we wonder how we can ensure that the whole DB is read into RAM. We hope that this will speed up some queries. regards David ---(end of broadcast)--