Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL

2004-06-03 Thread scott.marlowe
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Josh, the disks in the new system should be substantially faster than > > the old. Both are Ultra160 SCSI RAID 5 arrays, but the new system has > > 15k RPM disks, as opposed to the 10k RPM disks in the old system. > > Spindle speed does not correla

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL

2004-05-30 Thread Gavin M. Roy
It might be helpful to include a sample query that is running slower than you expect, with the table structure, and the output of explain {query}. Gavin Leon Out wrote: Hello all. I am in the midst of porting a large web application from a MS SQL Server backend to PostgreSQL. The migration work

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL Server

2004-02-13 Thread Vivek Khera
> "LO" == Leon Out <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LO> project. The results so far have been disappointing, with Postgres LO> performing queries in about the same time as SQL Server even though LO> Postgres is running on a dedicated box with about 4 times the clock LO> speed of the SQL Server box.

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL

2004-02-13 Thread matt
> Josh, the disks in the new system should be substantially faster than > the old. Both are Ultra160 SCSI RAID 5 arrays, but the new system has > 15k RPM disks, as opposed to the 10k RPM disks in the old system. Spindle speed does not correlate with 'throughput' in any easy way. What controllers

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL Server

2004-02-13 Thread Vivek Khera
> "LO" == Leon Out <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: LO> Josh, the disks in the new system should be substantially faster than LO> the old. Both are Ultra160 SCSI RAID 5 arrays, but the new system has LO> 15k RPM disks, as opposed to the 10k RPM disks in the old system. If you've got the time, try

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL Server

2004-02-13 Thread Leon Out
All, thanks for your suggestions. I've tweaked my configuration, and I think I've squeezed a little more performance out of the setup. I also tried running several tests simultaneously against postgres and SQL Server, and postgres did much better with the heavy load. My new settings are: max_co

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL Server

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:19:27PM -0500, Chris Ruprecht wrote: > what he's doing, this might be a bottleneck. I don't like the virtual memory > strategy of Linux too much and would rather increase this to 1 - 2 GB for the > Postgres DB - Specially since he's not running anything else on the mac

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL Server

2004-02-12 Thread Josh Berkus
Leon, > Hello all. I am in the midst of porting a large web application from a > MS SQL Server backend to PostgreSQL. The migration work is basically > complete, and we're at the testing and optimization phase of the > project. The results so far have been disappointing, with Postgres > perfor

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL Server

2004-02-12 Thread Chris Ruprecht
Bruce, my bet is on the limited amount of shared memory. The setup as posted by Leon only shows 80 MB. On a 4 GB database, that's not all that much. Depending on what he's doing, this might be a bottleneck. I don't like the virtual memory strategy of Linux too much and would rather increase thi

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL Server

2004-02-12 Thread PC Drew
Please run your largest (worst) queries using EXPLAIN ANALYZE and send in the results so we can see how the queries are being executed & optimized. On Feb 12, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Leon Out wrote: Hello all. I am in the midst of porting a large web application from a MS SQL Server backend to Post

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL Server

2004-02-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Leon Out wrote: > Hello all. I am in the midst of porting a large web application from a > MS SQL Server backend to PostgreSQL. The migration work is basically > complete, and we're at the testing and optimization phase of the > project. The results so far have been disappointing, with Postgres

Re: [PERFORM] Disappointing performance in db migrated from MS SQL

2004-02-12 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Leon Out wrote: > Hello all. I am in the midst of porting a large web application from a > MS SQL Server backend to PostgreSQL. The migration work is basically > complete, and we're at the testing and optimization phase of the > project. The results so far have been disappo