Re: [PERFORM] Specifications for a new server

2014-05-06 Thread Dorian Hoxha
Since the commitlog/WAL is sequential-write, does it mattert that much to put it in ssd ?(i understand that it matters to put it in separate disk-subsystem so the write/read patterns don't interfere) On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:13:42AM +0200,

Re: [PERFORM] Specifications for a new server

2014-05-06 Thread Dorian Hoxha
Tue, May 06, 2014 at 01:15:10PM +0200, Dorian Hoxha wrote: > >> Since the commitlog/WAL is sequential-write, does it mattert that much to >> put >> it in ssd >> > > No, assuming a good storage system with nvram write buffer. > Mike Stone > > > -- > Sent vi

Re: [PERFORM] Specifications for a new server

2014-05-08 Thread Dorian Hoxha
> > Why do you even want to use JBOD? > Not for postgresql , but for distributed filesystems like hdfs/qfs (which are supposed to work on JBOD) with hypertable on top (so the nvram would help with the commits, since it is the biggest bottleneck when writing(commits need to be saved to multiple ser

Re: [PERFORM] auto vaccum is dying

2014-10-02 Thread Dorian Hoxha
I think I've read that when auto-vacuum takes too long, run it more often. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 10/02/2014 07:43 AM, Rodrigo Barboza wrote: > >> Hello, I have a table that receives lots of updates and inserts. >> Auto vaccum is always being cancelled on

Re: [PERFORM] Need more IOPS? This should get you drooling... (5xnvme drives)

2015-06-04 Thread Dorian Hoxha
This looks great when you want in-memory (something like unlogged tables) and you also want replication. (meaning, I don't know of an alternative to get replication with unlogged than to just get faster drives + logged tables?) On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Graeme B. Bell wrote: > > Images/dat