Re: [PERFORM] db server load

2009-01-12 Thread Stefano Nichele
is basically a web application and the db size is 37 GB. How would you classify the load ? small/medium/high ? Cheers, ste Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Stefano Nichele stefano.nich...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I would like to ask to you, how many connections a db server

Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-11 Thread Stefano Nichele
. ste On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Stefano Nichele stefano.nich...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, here some information: OS: Centos 5.x (Linux 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 #1 SMP Tue May 20 09:34:18 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) RAID: it's a hardware RAID controller The disks are 9600rpm SATA drives (6

Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-11 Thread Stefano Nichele
Here some number from a mine old pgfouine report: - query peak: 378 queries/s - select: 53,1%, insert 3,8%, update 2,2 %, delete 2,8 % Actually the percentages are wrong (I think pgfouine counts also other types of query like ET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS AS TRANSACTION READ WRITE;): These are

Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-08 Thread Stefano Nichele
, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Stefano Nichele stefano.nich...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: I concur with Merlin you're I/O bound. Adding to his post, what RAID controller are you running, does it have cache, does the cache have

Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-08 Thread Stefano Nichele
Glyn Astill wrote: --- On Thu, 8/1/09, Stefano Nichele stefano.nich...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stefano Nichele stefano.nich...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks To: Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Date

Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-08 Thread Stefano Nichele
Merlin Moncure wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Stefano Nichele stefano.nich...@gmail.com wrote: Find ! Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 PCI SATA 6ch Running lspci -v: 03:09.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell CERC SATA RAID 2 PCI SATA 6ch (DellCorsair

Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-07 Thread Stefano Nichele
Ok, here some information: OS: Centos 5.x (Linux 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 #1 SMP Tue May 20 09:34:18 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) RAID: it's a hardware RAID controller The disks are 9600rpm SATA drives (6 disk 1+0 RAID array and 2 separate disks for the OS). About iostat (on sdb I have

Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-07 Thread Stefano Nichele
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.comwrote: I concur with Merlin you're I/O bound. Adding to his post, what RAID controller are you running, does it have cache, does the cache have battery backup, is the cache set to write back or write through? At the

[PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-06 Thread Stefano Nichele
. Let me know if other info is useful. Ste -- Stefano Nichele Funambol Chief Architect Funambol :: Open Source Mobile'We' for the Mass Market :: http://www.funambol.com -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [PERFORM] understanding postgres issues/bottlenecks

2009-01-06 Thread Stefano Nichele
: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Stefano Nichele stefano.nich...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I would like to ask your help in order to understand if my postgresql server (ver. 8.2.9) is well configured. It's a quad-proc system (32 bit) with a 6 disk 1+0 RAID array and 2 separate disks for the OS

[PERFORM] db server load

2008-12-12 Thread Stefano Nichele
Hi All, I would like to ask to you, how many connections a db server can handle. I know the question is not so easy, and actually I don't want to known a number but something like: - up to 100 connections: small load, low entry server is enough - up to 200 connections: the db server starts to