Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Rajesh Kumar Mallah mallah.raj...@gmail.com wrote: the raid10 voulme was benchmarked again taking in consideration above points Effect of ReadAhead Settings disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 xfs_ra256

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
Effect of ReadAhead Settings disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 SEQUENTIAL xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 xfs_ra256403647, 545026 all tests on sda6 xfs_ra512411357, 564769 xfs_ra1024 404392, 431168 looks like 512 was the best

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Rajesh Kumar Mallah mallah.raj...@gmail.com wrote: Effect of ReadAhead Settings disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 SEQUENTIAL xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 xfs_ra256403647, 545026 all tests on sda6 xfs_ra512

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
have you tried hanging bunch of raid1 to linux's md, and let it do raid0 for you ? I heard plenty of stories where this actually sped up performance. One noticeable is case of youtube servers. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz gryz...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried hanging bunch of raid1 to linux's md, and let it do raid0 for you ? Hmmm , i will have only 3 bunches in that case as system has to boot from first bunch as system has only 8 drives. i think reducing

Re: [PERFORM] Call of function inside trigger much slower than explicit function call

2009-02-18 Thread Alexander Gorban
Well, that does sound weird... can you post the full definition for the images_meta table? Are there any other triggers on that table? Is it referenced by any foreign keys? How fast is the insert if you drop the trigger? ...Robert Yes, weird. Something was wrong in my own code, after

Re: [PERFORM] TCP network cost

2009-02-18 Thread Gregory Stark
Ross J. Reedstrom reeds...@rice.edu writes: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:20:02AM -0700, Rusty Conover wrote: Try running tests with ttcp to eliminate any PostgreSQL overhead and find out the real bandwidth between the two machines. If its results are also slow, you know the problem is

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2009/2/18 Rajesh Kumar Mallah mallah.raj...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz gryz...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried hanging bunch of raid1 to linux's md, and let it do raid0 for you ? Hmmm , i will have only 3 bunches in that case as system has to boot from

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Carey
On 2/18/09 12:31 AM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: Effect of ReadAhead Settings disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 xfs_ra256403647, 545026 all tests on sda6 xfs_ra512411357, 564769 xfs_ra1024

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Carey
One thing to note, is that linux's md sets the readahead to 8192 by default instead of 128. I've noticed that in many situations, a large chunk of the performance boost reported is due to this alone. On 2/18/09 12:57 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz gryz...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried hanging

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Scott Carey
On 2/17/09 11:52 PM, Rajesh Kumar Mallah mallah.raj...@gmail.com wrote: the raid10 voulme was benchmarked again taking in consideration above points Effect of ReadAhead Settings disabled,256(default) , 512,1024 xfs_ra0 414741 , 66144 xfs_ra256403647, 545026

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-18 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
There has been an error in the tests the dataset size was not 2*MEM it was 0.5*MEM i shall redo the tests and post results. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance