Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-24 Thread Dmitri Bichko
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Wiles Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:52 AM To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article Hi Everyone, I've put together a short article and posted it online regarding

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-23 Thread Radu-Adrian Popescu
There have been problems with Xeon processors. Can you elaborate on that please ? Thanks, -- Radu-Adrian Popescu CSA, DBA, Developer Aldrapay MD Aldratech Ltd. +40213212243 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-23 Thread Dave Cramer
My understanding is that it isn't particularly XEON processors that is the problem Any dual processor will exhibit the problem, XEON's with hyperthreading exacerbate the problem though and the good news is that it has been fixed in 8.1 Dave On 23-Jun-05, at 8:16 AM, Keith Worthington

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-23 Thread Frank Wiles
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:31:29 -0400 Keith Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank, A couple of things I wish I had been told when I started asking how to configure a new machine. Use RAID 10 (striping across mirrored disks) or RAID 0+1 (mirror a striped array) for your data. Use

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-23 Thread Radu-Adrian Popescu
Dave Cramer wrote: My understanding is that it isn't particularly XEON processors that is the problem Any dual processor will exhibit the problem, XEON's with hyperthreading exacerbate the problem though and the good news is that it has been fixed in 8.1 Where's that ? The only

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:31:29PM -0400, Keith Worthington wrote: Use RAID 10 (striping across mirrored disks) or RAID 0+1 (mirror a striped array) for your data. yikes! never tell an unsuspecting person to use mirred stripes--that configuration has lower reliability and performance than

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK, the problem was the buffer manager The buffer manager was the place that seemed to be hit hardest by Xeon's problems with spinlock contention. I think we've partially fixed that issue in 8.1, but as we continue to improve the system's performance,

[PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-22 Thread Frank Wiles
Hi Everyone, I've put together a short article and posted it online regarding performance tuning PostgreSQL in general. I believe it helps to bring together the info in a easy to digest manner. I would appreciate any feedback, comments, and especially any technical corrections.

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-22 Thread Josh Berkus
Frank, I've put together a short article and posted it online regarding performance tuning PostgreSQL in general. I believe it helps to bring together the info in a easy to digest manner. I would appreciate any feedback, comments, and especially any technical corrections. Looks

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-22 Thread Frank Wiles
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:16:03 -0700 Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com wrote: Frank, I've put together a short article and posted it online regarding performance tuning PostgreSQL in general. I believe it helps to bring together the info in a easy to digest manner. I would

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-22 Thread Karim Nassar
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 09:52 -0500, Frank Wiles wrote: I've put together a short article and posted it online regarding performance tuning PostgreSQL in general. Nice work! Some minor issues I saw: * section Understanding the process, para 5: Now that PostgreSQL has a plan of what it

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-22 Thread Tobias Brox
[Frank Wiles - Wed at 09:52:27AM -0500] I've put together a short article and posted it online regarding performance tuning PostgreSQL in general. I believe it helps to bring together the info in a easy to digest manner. I would appreciate any feedback, comments, and especially any

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Tuning Article

2005-06-22 Thread Keith Worthington
I've put together a short article and posted it online regarding performance tuning PostgreSQL in general. I believe it helps to bring together the info in a easy to digest manner. I would appreciate any feedback, comments, and especially any technical corrections. Looks nice. You