Re: [PERFORM] Performance PG 8.0 on dual opteron / 4GB / 3ware Raid5 / Debian??

2005-11-14 Thread Dave Cramer

Joost,

I've got experience with these controllers and which version do you  
have. I'd expect to see higher than 50MB/s although I've never tried  
RAID 5


I routinely see closer to 100MB/s with RAID 1+0 on their 9000 series

I would also suggest that shared buffers should be higher than 7500,  
closer to 3, and effective cache should be up around 200k


work_mem is awfully high, remember that this will be given to each  
and every connection and can be more than 1x this number per  
connection depending on the number of sorts

done in the query.

fsync=false ? I'm not even sure why we have this option, but I'd  
never set it to false.


Dave

On 6-Nov-05, at 8:30 AM, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:


Hi,

I am experiencing very long update queries and I want to know if it
reasonable to expect them to perform better.

The query below is running for more than 1.5 hours (5500 seconds) now,
while the rest of the system does nothing (I don't even type or move a
mouse...).

- Is that to be expected?
- Is 180-200 tps with ~ 9000 KB (see output iostat below) not low,  
given

the fact that fsync is off?  (Note: with bonnie++ I get write
performance  50 MB/sec and read performace  70 MB/sec with  2000
read/write ops /sec?
- Does anyone else have any experience with the 3Ware RAID controller
(which is my suspect)?
- Any good idea how to determine the real botleneck if this is not the
performance I can expect?

My hard- and software:

- PostgreSQL 8.0.3
- Debian 3.1 (Sarge) AMD64
- Dual Opteron
- 4GB RAM
- 3ware Raid5 with 5 disks

Pieces of my postgresql.conf (All other is default):
shared_buffers = 7500
work_mem = 260096
fsync=false
effective_cache_size = 32768



The query with explain (amount and orderbedrag_valuta are float8,
ordernummer and ordernumber int4):

explain update prototype.orders set amount =
odbc.orders.orderbedrag_valuta from odbc.orders where ordernumber =
odbc.orders.ordernummer;
 QUERY PLAN
-- 
---

Hash Join  (cost=50994.74..230038.17 rows=1104379 width=466)
   Hash Cond: (outer.ordernumber = inner.ordernummer)
   -  Seq Scan on orders  (cost=0.00..105360.68 rows=3991868  
width=455)

   -  Hash  (cost=48233.79..48233.79 rows=1104379 width=15)
 -  Seq Scan on orders  (cost=0.00..48233.79 rows=1104379
width=15)


Sample output from iostat during query (about avarage):
Device:tpskB_read/skB_wrtn/skB_readkB_wrtn
hdc   0.00 0.00 0.00  0  0
sda   0.00 0.00 0.00  0  0
sdb 187.1323.76  8764.36 24   8852


--
Groeten,

Joost Kraaijeveld
Askesis B.V.
Molukkenstraat 14
6524NB Nijmegen
tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277
fax: 024-3608416
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: www.askesis.nl



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Re: [PERFORM] Performance PG 8.0 on dual opteron / 4GB / 3ware Raid5 / Debian??

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Turner
Where are the pg_xlog and data directories with respect to each other?
 From this IOStat it looks like they might be on the same partition,
which is not ideal, and actualy surprising that throughput is this
good.  You need to seperate pg_xlog and data directories to get any
kind of reasonable performance.  Also don't use RAID 5 - RAID 5 bites,
no really - it bites. Use multiple RAID 1s, or RAID 10s, you will get
better performance.  50MB/70MB is about the same as you get from a
single disk or a RAID 1.

We use 2x9506S8MI controlers, and have maintained excellent
performance with 2xRAID 10 and 2xRAID 1.  Make sure you get the
firmware update if you have these controllers though.

Alex Turner
NetEconomist

On 11/6/05, Joost Kraaijeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,

 I am experiencing very long update queries and I want to know if it
 reasonable to expect them to perform better.

 The query below is running for more than 1.5 hours (5500 seconds) now,
 while the rest of the system does nothing (I don't even type or move a
 mouse...).

 - Is that to be expected?
 - Is 180-200 tps with ~ 9000 KB (see output iostat below) not low, given
 the fact that fsync is off?  (Note: with bonnie++ I get write
 performance  50 MB/sec and read performace  70 MB/sec with  2000
 read/write ops /sec?
 - Does anyone else have any experience with the 3Ware RAID controller
 (which is my suspect)?
 - Any good idea how to determine the real botleneck if this is not the
 performance I can expect?

 My hard- and software:

 - PostgreSQL 8.0.3
 - Debian 3.1 (Sarge) AMD64
 - Dual Opteron
 - 4GB RAM
 - 3ware Raid5 with 5 disks

 Pieces of my postgresql.conf (All other is default):
 shared_buffers = 7500
 work_mem = 260096
 fsync=false
 effective_cache_size = 32768



 The query with explain (amount and orderbedrag_valuta are float8,
 ordernummer and ordernumber int4):

 explain update prototype.orders set amount =
 odbc.orders.orderbedrag_valuta from odbc.orders where ordernumber =
 odbc.orders.ordernummer;
  QUERY PLAN
 -
 Hash Join  (cost=50994.74..230038.17 rows=1104379 width=466)
Hash Cond: (outer.ordernumber = inner.ordernummer)
-  Seq Scan on orders  (cost=0.00..105360.68 rows=3991868 width=455)
-  Hash  (cost=48233.79..48233.79 rows=1104379 width=15)
  -  Seq Scan on orders  (cost=0.00..48233.79 rows=1104379
 width=15)


 Sample output from iostat during query (about avarage):
 Device:tpskB_read/skB_wrtn/skB_readkB_wrtn
 hdc   0.00 0.00 0.00  0  0
 sda   0.00 0.00 0.00  0  0
 sdb 187.1323.76  8764.36 24   8852


 --
 Groeten,

 Joost Kraaijeveld
 Askesis B.V.
 Molukkenstraat 14
 6524NB Nijmegen
 tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277
 fax: 024-3608416
 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 web: www.askesis.nl



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Re: [PERFORM] Performance PG 8.0 on dual opteron / 4GB / 3ware Raid5 / Debian??

2005-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Joost Kraaijeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 I am experiencing very long update queries and I want to know if it
 reasonable to expect them to perform better. 

Does that table have any triggers that would fire on the update?

regards, tom lane

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