Re: [PERFORM] Performance problems with a higher number of clients

2003-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Alfranio Correia Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am facing a problem trying to put 500 concurrent users accessing a postgresql instance. I think you're going to need to buy more RAM. 1Gb of RAM means there is a maximum of 2Mb available per Postgres process before you start to go into swap

Re: [PERFORM] hints in Postgres?

2003-12-11 Thread Pavel Stehule
hello maybe http://www.gtsm.com/oscon2003/toc.html http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/perf.html bye Pavel On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, sandra ruiz wrote: Hi list, I need to know if there is anything like hints of Oracle in Postgres..otherwise..I wish to find a way to force a

[PERFORM] Command

2003-12-11 Thread nbarraza
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Re: [PERFORM] hints in Postgres?

2003-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sandra ruiz): I need to know if there is anything like hints of Oracle in Postgres..otherwise..I wish to find a way to force a query plan to use the indexes or tell the optimizer things like optimize based in statistics, I want to define the order of the a join ,

Re: [PERFORM] hints in Postgres?

2003-12-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:00:19 -0500, sandra ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I need to know if there is anything like hints of Oracle in Postgres..otherwise..I wish to find a way to force a query plan to use the indexes or tell the optimizer things like optimize based in

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware suggestions for Linux/PGSQL server

2003-12-11 Thread William Yu
Jeff Bohmer wrote: We're willing to shell out extra bucks to get something that will undoubtedly handle the projected peak load in 12 months with excellent performance. But we're not familiar with PG's performance on Linux and don't like to waste money. Properly tuned, PG on Linux runs really

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware suggestions for Linux/PGSQL server

2003-12-11 Thread William Yu
Jeff Bohmer wrote: It seems I don't fully understand the bigmem situation. I've searched the archives, googled, checked RedHat's docs, etc. But I'm getting conflicting, incomplete and/or out of date information. Does anyone have pointers to bigmem info or configuration for the 2.4 kernel?

[PERFORM] Measuring execution time for sql called from PL/pgSQL

2003-12-11 Thread Aram Kananov
Hi, I've got very slow insert performance on some table which has trigger based on complex PL/pgSQL function. Apparently insert is slow due some slow sql inside that function, since CPU load is very high and disk usage is low during insert. I run Red Hat 9 Anthlon 2.6 1GB ram Fast IDE Disk

Re: [PERFORM] Performance problems with a higher number of clients

2003-12-11 Thread Alfranio Tavares Correia Junior
Thanks for the advices, The performance is a bit better now. Unfortunately, the machine does not allow to put more than 200 - ~250 users without noticing swap hell. I have to face the fact that I don't have enough memory I used the following configuration: effective_cache_size = 65000