Re: [PERFORM] Replaying 48 WAL files takes 80 minutes

2012-11-01 Thread Jeff Trout
if it is cfq change that to deadline or noop. that can make a huge difference. -- Jeff Trout http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance

Re: [PERFORM] dell versus hp

2007-11-15 Thread Jeff Trout
ad though. Given our workload, we need the random perf much more than seq, but I can see the opposite being true in a warehouse workload. btw, the tool I wrote is here http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgiosim/ -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dellsmarte

Re: [PERFORM] hp ciss on freebsd

2007-11-05 Thread Jeff Trout
the pgiosim project on pgfoundry, it sort of simulates a pg index scan, which is probably what you'll want to focus on more than seq read speed. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dellsmartexitin.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ -

Re: [PERFORM] most bang for buck with ~ $20,000

2006-08-10 Thread Jeff Trout
nt to have data in the cache while seeing how long it takes for the battery to drain :) -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dellsmartexitin.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our ex

Re: [PERFORM] Postgresql Performance on an HP DL385 and SmartArray 642

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Trout
he 6i controller. If you look in the pgsql-performance archives a week or two ago you'll see a similar thread to this one - in fact, it is also about a dl385 (but he had a 5i controller) -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dellsmartexitin.com/ http://ww

Re: [PERFORM] Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Trout
72 1 so I'm going to be going with hw r5, which went against what I thought going in - read perf is more important for my usage than write. I'm still not sure about that software 10 read number. something is not right there... -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PERFORM] SAN performance mystery

2006-06-16 Thread Jeff Trout
at is kicking the performance down the tube. If it was PG's fault it wouldn't be stuck uninterruptable. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dellsmartexitin.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [PERFORM] Slow restoration question

2006-05-03 Thread Jeff Trout
On May 3, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: On May 3, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Jeff Trout wrote: Bonnie++ is able to use very large datasets. It also tries to figure out hte size you want (2x ram) - the original bonnie is limited to 2GB. but you have to be careful building bonnie++ since

Re: [PERFORM] Slow restoration question

2006-05-03 Thread Jeff Trout
very large datasets. It also tries to figure out hte size you want (2x ram) - the original bonnie is limited to 2GB. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres slower than MS ACCESS

2006-02-15 Thread Jeff Trout
300.003 rows=1221391 loops=1)" "Total runtime: 4472646.988 ms" Have you been vacuuming or running autovacuum? If you keep running queries like this you're certianly going to have a ton of dead tuples, which would def explain these times too. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL

Re: [PERFORM] Joining 2 tables with 300 million rows

2005-12-09 Thread Jeff Trout
alue. Another thing that may be a factor is the network - when doing explain analyze it doesn't have to transfer the dataset to the client. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [PERFORM] System queue

2005-11-22 Thread Jeff Trout
(loadavg) with low cpu usage means you are IO bound. Either change some queries around to generate less IO, or add more disks. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2:

Re: [PERFORM] OSX & Performance

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Trout
roblem). I could also get you access to this machine, but be warned gprof on tiger is pretty useless from what I've seen. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [PERFORM] OSX & Performance

2005-08-29 Thread Jeff Trout
Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5026) The snapshot on ftp.psotgresql.org (dated 8/29) also runs with no optimization. No cflags are set. need to see anything from config.log? -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/

[PERFORM] OSX & Performance

2005-08-26 Thread Jeff Trout
#s, but no timing data. Instead you can do something even better - compile PG normally and attach to it with Shark (Comes with the CHUD tools) and check out its profile. Quite slick actually :) I'll keep people updated on my progress, but I just wanted to get these issues out in the

Re: [PERFORM] extremly low memory usage

2005-08-18 Thread Jeff Trout
have any real effect? This doesn't allocate anything - it is a hint to the planner about how much data it can assume is cached. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [SPAM?] Re: [PERFORM] PG8 Tuning

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Trout
look into some more hardware.. see if you can borrow any or fabricate a "poor man"'s equivalent for testing. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5

Re: [PERFORM] COPY insert performance

2005-07-26 Thread Jeff Trout
ovement thereafter. Do you have a recommendation for a value? there's been a thread on -hackers recently about checkpoint issues.. in a nut shell there isn't much to do. But I'd say give bizgres a try if you're going to be continually loading huge amounts of data. -- Jeff T

Re: [PERFORM] Looking for tips

2005-07-19 Thread Jeff Trout
really prepared. That depends on what version you are using. Older versions did what Tom mentioned rather than sending PREPARE & EXECUTE. Not sure what version that changed in. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stua

Re: [PERFORM] optimization ideas for frequent, large(ish) updates

2004-02-15 Thread Jeff Trout
t sort_mem = 80) then only that session will use the looney sort_mem It would be interesting to know if your machine is swapping. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---(end of broadcast)--