Re: [PERFORM] db size

2008-04-14 Thread Vinubalaji Gopal
Hi Adrian, When I do a pg_dump with the following parameters /usr/bin/pg_dump -E UTF8 -F c -b I get a file of 14GB in size. From the man page of pg_dump -F format, --format=format Selects the format of the output. format can be one of the following: c output a custom archive suitable for

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum in Postgresql 8.0.x slowing down the database

2008-03-28 Thread Vinubalaji Gopal
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:02:13 -0700 Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The slowness is likely attributed to Vacuum's use of I/O. When vacuum is running what does iostat -k 10 say? Seems to be higher than normal - here is the output with vacuum run without the other queries and the

[PERFORM] vacuum in Postgresql 8.0.x slowing down the database

2008-03-26 Thread Vinubalaji Gopal
Hey all, I had posted sometime back asking for the best way to perform vacuum with a lower priority - I did tune it up to a lower priority and still noticed that the other database queries are slowing down with a vacuum on one big table. I also tried to upgrade Postgresql to 8.0.15 as suggested

[PERFORM] best way to run maintenance script

2008-03-14 Thread Vinubalaji Gopal
Hi all, I have been searching for the best way to run maintenance scripts which does a vacuum, analyze and deletes some old data. Whenever the maintenance script runs - mainly the pg_maintenance --analyze script - it slows down postgresql inserts and I want to avoid that. The system is under

Re: [PERFORM] best way to run maintenance script

2008-03-14 Thread Vinubalaji Gopal
Hi Joshua, You can use parameters such as vacuum_cost_delay to help this... see the docs: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/runtime-config-autovacuum.html I am checking it out. Seems to be a nice option for vacuum - but wish there was a way to change the delete priority or I will

Re: [PERFORM] best way to run maintenance script

2008-03-14 Thread Vinubalaji Gopal
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 18:37 -0700, Tom Lane wrote: That's only a little bit better. Read about all the bug fixes you're Sure - will eventually upgrade it sometime - but it has to wait for now :( -- Vinu -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [PERFORM] best way to run maintenance script

2008-03-14 Thread Vinubalaji Gopal
I think you will find if you do it the right way, which is to say the way that it is meant to be done with the configurable options, your life will be a great deal more pleasant than some one off hack. yeah I agree. The pg_maintanence script which calls vacuum and analyze is the one of

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres scalability and performance on windows

2006-11-28 Thread Gopal
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2006 17:05 To: Guido Neitzer Cc: Gopal; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres scalability and performance on windows On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:22:45 +0100 Guido Neitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: effective_cache_size = 82728

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres scalability and performance on windows

2006-11-24 Thread Gopal
width=4) (actual time=0.005..0.024 rows=10 loops=1) Filter: (typeofdataid = 1) Total runtime: 15.871 ms Gopal

[PERFORM] Postgres scalability and performance on windows

2006-11-23 Thread Gopal
getting as the limit on windows or should I be looking at some other params that I might have missed? Thanks, Gopal This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more