Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL in virtual machine

2007-03-13 Thread Cosimo Streppone
Andreas Tille wrote: Are there any experiences about reasonable performance increasing strategies? Are there any special things to regard in a VM? Not directly about Postgresql, but I'm seeing evidence that upgrading from vmware 2.5.3 to 3.0.1 seems to have solved disk access performance

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL in virtual machine

2007-03-12 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Andreas, I am responsible for some active PostgreSQL databases within virtual machines and on plain metal; all using Windows. There are spurious strange performance issues on those PostreSQL databases within the virtual machines. I can not pin them down (yet), and am not really able to blame